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