Configuring Mail and News Readers

One of the joys of APL is the way that the expanded character set gives us brevity and clarity of expression. A downside is that when we need to squeeze APL through Mail and News applications which have their roots in 7-bit ASCII what the sender sends isn't always the same as the receiver receives - at some stage the code collapses into a heap of question marks or becomes illegible. It doesn't have to be this way and the intention of this page is to set out working configurations for as many mail/news clients as possible.

Goal

What we want to achieve is a three-step exchange of APL code:

APL code in a workspace

is copy/pasted into a mail message or news posting body

Sent by Person A

may be forwarded and/or replied to (possibly more than once)

Received by Person B

is copy/pasted into a workspace

APL code in a workspace

Platforms

Windows

Mail Clients

Thunderbird

NewsReaders

XNews

Mac

Mail Clients

NewsReaders

Linux

Mail Clients

NewsReaders