LE> Frankly, I think we should just go to Unicode. It has provisions
 LE> for specifying subsets and switching them, so you can ID the
 LE> subset at the start of block, and just use 8-bit chars in the
 LE> block, and still "escape" to use 16-bit chars inside that block
 LE> for small quotes or special symbols. And you can even switch
 LE> subsets. Or so I'm told.

Agree! But for now its impossible because there is no kludge defined to do that.
I think we have to wait until Tobias Ernst (Member of FTSC) has done his work.

For now you can use any codepage you like - but only in mails you absolutly
know the receiver uses the same.

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