[tlug] Multilanguage environment and encodings

[Stoyan Zhekov <sto@example.com>]

Hi,
i see a lot of people in the TLUG from non-english speaking
countries. How you deal with multilanguages situation?

Questions:
1. fonts - if I config Sylpheed with japanese fonts, i cannot
   read bulgarian (cp1251 encoding) and reverse. Is the UTF-8
   the only solution? But I recieve emails with mixed encodings
   so can for example iconv be used to convert them to the 
   common encoding (maybe some procmail recipe?) And how to
   enter texts? UTF-8 editor (xemacs? something else?) and
   iconv to cp1251 or jp?
2. Can somebody explain me (or give me some points to start
   with) japanese encodings - there is EUC, ShiftJIS, 
   ISO-2022-JP. Is the last one only for emails (something like
   uuencode but for japanese)? Which is better to use EUC or
   ShiftJIS?
3. kanji server - freewnn vs canna - witch is better solution

P.S: just a suggestion for people who sign their email with
PGP - can you give some link (or keyserver ID) in addition to your
fingerprints so I can import your public keys - in the moment checking 
signatures is impossible.

P.S 2: Before two days there was some problems with mailing list.
That time I posted announce about TLUG wiki (http://www.openbg.net/tlug/). 
Still no response or opinion. Is it something useful for TLUGers or just 
to stop it and not lose time with it?

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