... convert_unicode.c ...

[Matthias Andree]

Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su> writes:

> Hoping I may speak for Cyrillic users, they would rather choose
> between Windows-1251 and KOI8-R as their default-from-charset since
> literally nobody uses CP866 on the Net side.  Interestingly, I
> receive most ham in KOI8-R and most spam in Windows-1251, and I've
> never seen an email in CP866.  However, today most non-English
> spammers seem to specify charset right for their recipients to be
> able to read the junk in one click--who will ever spend two clicks
> to read spam?  Therefore US-ASCII is a reasonable default-from-charset
> for Cyrillic users.  I hope that it is for Chinese folks, too :-)

I'm not sure if someone hears your hopes.

I see considerable amounts of Korean and Chinese spam which has specific
patterns of character pairs, so it seems somewhat common in Asia to
override or default the specified charset to some national common
charset.

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Matthias Andree