>>So my non-ASCII characters look incorrect in your MUA because you're >>stuck in an insane locale? Too bad. That pain is self-inflicted. > > Don't blame me, I'm not the one who created all those funky European accented > characters, etc.
All these 'funky' characters predate to the first english written text. You are not the center of the world, and ASCII has a lot of signs that are not used by other languages: $, #, @, ', ", &. Almost of them are english centrics. > Really within the English language, there's really only a need for 128 > characters. All other (European) characters tend to only be seen within > International communications. Most within the US have no need for the > European > characters, etc. Yes, but there are billons of persons of comunicating in these other languages, in fact the majority of the population of the world. Regards,
