Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8
On Jun 08, Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> wrote:
>TELL ME HOW IN THE HELL I CAN WRITE A MAIL WITH WORDS FROM
>HUNGARIAN, SLOVAK, RUSSIAN AN JAPANESE TOGETHER!!!!
You and him configure your MUAs to use some unicode encoding and deal
with any resulting problem which may happen.
No need to force it on everybody else.
>Unicode was not panacea, but it solved most of the problems,
>although setting it up was not painless.
Good. Maybe you should consider writing the Unicode-HOWTO, so other
people will be able to switch more easily to unicode.
>and _you_ want to continue with status quo.
No, I want to leave people and national communities the freedom to chose
what is best for them.
>Granted, unicode might not be ready for Japanese.
>But, should we wait until it is ready?
Yes. I have no desire to suffer because you consider more elegant
switching everything to unicode right now.
>Or should we try to implement support for it, so that our
>japanese friends can work on remaining issues?
Implementing unicode support does not mean requiring people to use it.
>And they have now several incompatible encodings (the same
>situation as here with Slovak, so I _know_ something about
>the issue). Do you not think something should be done about it?
I don't know their problems so I will not try to dictate what they
should do.
>The fact that _you_ communicate in ASCII with a bit of latin1,
>and you have no problem with it since you do not communicate
>with people outside your scope, and because even Gates did
>not dare to make CP1252 too incompatible with iso latin1
>(as he DID dare to do with CP1250 and iso latin2), does not mean,
>that everybody has the same luck and does not feel the problem.
The fact _you_ have some problems does not mean I should suffer because
of them.
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ciao,
Marco
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