[email protected] (Karl Berry) skribis: > Sorry, I think it *should* be a (distant) second choice. The assumption > that all the world is UTF-8 is simply not valid, in my experience. Both > personally and with people I know.
I think it’s reasonable to expect the audience of the Standards, typically people using the latest and greatest GNU/Linux, to be able to deal with UTF-8 encoded files. I think it’s also important to acknowledge and support a technical evolution towards inclusion of non-English natives, and towards better expressivity in general. > If you disagree, feel free to write rms directly. I would suggest only > proposing the idea, not the actual text, or he could easily get diverted. OK, I’ll see. Ludo’.
