[OT] Client display of languages (was: Re: What rules have been used...)

[Harald Alvestrand]

--On 15. desember 2006 15:37 -0800 Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase.com> wrote:

>
>> > Most email clients have a user interface in a single language. That
>> > would be the default language to use for IDN display. Some clients may
>> > even allow the user to specify multiple languages, as browsers do.
>>
>> I find it very convenient that my email client displays Russian spam in
>> Russian characters. I can instantly recognize that as Russian, and know
>> that the sender has no interest in communicating with me.
>
> But do you mean as mojibake Russian (i.e. KOI-8 misinterpreted
> and displayed as Latin-1 letters in your email client) or
> actually as Russian?

I mean Russian.

> It seems to me that in either case, if you don't read Russian,
> you would immediately know that the sender has no interest
> in communicating with you.

In the mojibake case, it is theoretically possible that someone messed up 
his mail settings enough to make his legitimate message illegible to me.