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Re: [bug-gnulib] quote characters in stds
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [bug-gnulib] quote characters in stds |
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Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:58:05 +0200 |
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Karl Berry wrote:
> Yes, but rms has explicitly rejected (in previous email with me) the
> idea of recommending the use of UTF-8 in any context whatsoever. Sigh.
Sigh. What you wrote there:
If you need to use non-ASCII characters, for example to represent
names of contributors, you should normally stick with one encoding, as
one cannot in general mix encodings reliably.
is a salomonic solution: to educated people it recommends Unicode, without
mentioning it explicitly.
> My personal experience is that it is true that Unicode is still
> considerably less widely usable than Latin1. Sure, Unicode is available
> in many contexts and systems. But the names in your message, just for
> example, came through as garbage to me.
That depends on your mailer. Is it a package in Emacs, or is it 'pine'
without Bernhard Kaindl's patches?
> No doubt I personally could
> eventually configure everything involved to display it properly, but the
> point is that it doesn't "just work".
True: there are some distributions where things don't "just work", but these
non-Unicode-enabled corners are diminishing.
Maybe you can reformulate the last two paragraphs in a way that is less
incorrect?
> PS: The right spelling of the encodings is "Latin1" (no dash, no space)
>
> I'm glad to know that, it's easier to type than @tie{} :). I had mostly
> seen it with a space. Do you happen to know where the definitive
> spelling is given?
It's at the IANA: http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
Bruno
- quote characters in stds, (continued)
- quote characters in stds, Jose E. Marchesi, 2005/06/07
- Re: quote characters in stds, James Youngman, 2005/06/07
- Re: quote characters in stds, James Youngman, 2005/06/07
- Re: quote characters in stds, Simon Josefsson, 2005/06/07
- Re: [bug-gnulib] quote characters in stds, Bruno Haible, 2005/06/07
- Re: quote characters in stds, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/07