[Mozilla] Fwd: Please consider if your locale could default to UTF-8 for outgoing email

div gen 31 15:04:48 CET 2014

Sempre que he tingut un ordinador a les mans que s'ha comprat fora ( p. ex.
Àsia) li he fet un ''dpkg reconfigure locales'' i la codificació ha estat
sempre a UTF-8 pel tema del teclat i mai hi ha hagut cap problema amb res
(i entre el programari instal·lat es troba el Mozilla Thunderbird i rl
Firefox).

Suposo que tot és qüestió d'enviar uns quants correus de prova i verificar
què passa en determinades situacions.

Si necessiteu un cop de mà,  jo faig servir el Thunderbird com a gestor de
correu per defecte i tinc màquines amb Linux i Windows i mòbils i tauletes
amb Android...
Benny.
El dia 31/01/2014 14:37, "Jordi Serratosa" <jordis.lists a gmail.com> va
escriure:

>  Ep
> A la llista de traducció de Mozilla comenten que cada llengua caldria
> considerar si vol canviar la codificació de caràcters per defecte a UTF-8
> en l'enviament de missatges de correu.
> Si voleu seguir la conversa, és aquí:
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.l10n/PH7tF9m8vUY><https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.l10n/PH7tF9m8vUY>
>
> Actualment, el català té configurat que els missatges s'enviïn per defecte
> en ISO-8859-1.
> En principi jo no veig inconvenients per fer el canvi, que sembla prou
> lògic, però no sé si algú en sap més i creu que no seria bona idea...
>
> Anybody?
>
> salut
> jordi s
>
>
> -------- Missatge original --------  Assumpte: Please consider if your
> locale could default to UTF-8 for outgoing email  Data: Fri, 31 Jan 2014
> 12:30:13 +0200  De: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen a hsivonen.fi><hsivonen a hsivonen.fi>  A:
> dev-l10n a lists.mozilla.org, dev-apps-thunderbird a lists.mozilla.org
>
> Yesterday, the default character encoding for new outgoing email in the
> en-US localization of Thunderbird changed from ISO-8859-1 (which really
> means windows-1252 labeled as ISO-8859-1) to UTF-8. (Thanks Magnus!)
> Previously, many other localizations had already set the default
> character encoding for new outgoing email to UTF-8. This localizations are:
> Arabic
> Belarusian
> Greek
> Farsi
> Georgian
> Macedonian
> South Ndebele
> Panjabi
> Polish
> Romanian
> Russian
> Serbian
> Swati
> Southern Sotho
> Tsonga
> Venda
> Vietnamese
> Xhosa
> Traditonal Chinese
> Zulu
>
> Note that this isn't just a matter of African languages that have to use
> UTF-8 using UTF-8. The above list includes languages that do have
> Thunderbird-supported legacy encodings (Arabic, Belarusian, Greek,
> Farsi, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Vietnamese,
> Traditional Chinese).
>
> I encourage other localizations to consider whether they'd be ready to
> change the default for outgoing email (mailnews.send_default_charset in
> messenger.properties) to UTF-8.
>
> The only reason not to would be regionally still-popular UTF-8-incapable
> email clients. (Unlikely at this day and age.)
>
> In particular, since the Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian and Serbian
> localizations have already been able to make the switch to UTF-8, it is
> very probable that the Bulgarian and Ukrainian localizations could do
> so, too, at this time.
>
> I'd also like to especially encourage the German, Italian and Breton
> localizations to consider if they could make the switch to UTF-8. These
> three locales currently default to ISO-8859-15 for outgoing email. This
> doesn't make sense, because:
>
>  1) ISO-8859-15 is a younger encoding than UTF-8. If you are worrying
> about UTF-8 being too new to be supported, on newness grounds, you
> should worry even more about ISO-8859-15!
>
>  2) Compared to ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15 was motivated by three things:
> less common French letters mysteriously omitted from ISO-8859-1,
> transliterations in the Finnish context (totally missing the point of
> transliterations!) and the euro sign. When the French and Finnish
> localizations as well as many other localizations used in the Eurozone
> don't need to default to ISO-8859-15, German, Italian and Breton almost
> certainly don't need to, either. But instead of changing back to
> ISO-8859-1, let's treat this as an opportunity to switch to UTF-8.
>
> - -
>
> Currently, Thunderbird already silently upgrades a message to UTF-8 even
> when the default is something else if the message contains characters
> that can't be expressed in the preferred legacy encoding, so it's not
> like the defaults prevent people from writing stuff in email. So why
> bother changing the default then?
>
> The reason why Thunderbird doesn't always use UTF-8 for outgoing email
> is that way back when UTF-8 support was initially added to email
> clients, older email clients out there didn't all already supports
> UTF-8, so it makes sense to use already-supported legacy encodings when
> possible. But that was a long ago. UTF-8 was invented over 20 years ago
> and at least for the past decade, the ability to receive UTF-8 has been
> commonplace. We should stop pretending that UTF-8 avoidance still adds
> value when pretty much everyone already uses email clients capable of
> receiving UTF-8. The Gaia email client already simply uses UTF-8 for all
> outgoing email.
>
> The UTF-8 avoidance capabilities don't come for free. In addition to
> having to maintain encoders for legacy encodings (which needs to happen
> to support form submissions in Firefox anyway) and having code
> complexity to deal with the silent upgrade to UTF-8 (which isn't that
> much additional code complexity considering what Firefox form
> submissions require anyway) it means having to maintain the capability
> of the HTML serializers (for HTML mail) to output encodings other than
> UTF-8 and it comes with the UI burden (both in terms of adding more
> stuff that the user may end up thinking about and in terms of adding a
> ball and chain legacy to code maintenance) since we seem to feel that if
> there is the possibility to use encodings other than UTF-8, there should
> be UI for it. (My primary interest in this is the inertia that
> Thunderbird having UI for this imposes on making encoding-related
> changes to Firefox.)
>
> So the two previous paragraphs seem to argue for removing the
> configurability and just always sending UTF-8. What's this about
> localizations changing the default configuration then?
>
> Changing the default configuration is a first step that makes reducing
> configurability and the associated code complexity less scary in the
> future. Making a change like this product-wide regardless of locale
> tends to bring up concerns that maybe the email client environment for
> some locale out there isn't ready yet. As more and more locales make the
> call that they can make the switch and default outgoing email to UTF-8,
> the concern of the form "Where *I* live, we don't have problems with
> this but I *worry* that *they* over *there* do." becomes less of a
> source of inertia.
>
> --
> Henri Sivonenhsivonen a hsivonen.fi
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