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 There is only ''one'' area in which Eudora is actually ''broken'', and I would like to '''beg''' the team to make fixing this their '''priority'''. The ''essence'' of e-mail is plain-text communication. Not spam protection, or fancy filtering, or scripting, or HTML. But plain old ''text'' in languages that people want to use. And that's were Eudora fails us: The text engine has not been updated to enable processing of UTF-8 text both in and out. [[User:Evertype|Evertype]] 03:09, 12 October 2006 (PDT)
+'''More on Unicode support as priority.'''
+''Demographic reasons (priority as importance):''
+Without unicode support, Penelope would be just as useless for the majority of potential users as Eudora is useless now. I use Eudora at work (though it sometimes has problems even with the diacritics of the "Western" charset), but have to use Thunderbird at home for my private mails in Russian. And yes, people wanting to communicate (also) in other languages than English constitute the majority of the Internet users, though for obvious reasons they may be under-represented in this forum.
+''Technical reasons (priority meaning doing it first):''
+It should be much easier to have the software treating '''every''' text as a unicode text than to decide every time which encoding is it now. Convert e-mails to unicode on arrival, then forget about the encodings.
+Ben Funfilder, 2006-11-11
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