On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Melinda Shore<melinda.sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right now ascii text is probably the most widely-supported > display format. This statement is violently counter-intuitive and shouldn't be accepted unsupported by evidence. - ASCII is not usable for the languages of a large majority of the world's population. - For electronic consumption of texts longer than SMS messages, HTML is the most widely-used display format, probably followed by PDF. - For print consumption, the use of modern typographic techniques - real quotation marks, dashes, accented characters if only for usages like café and coöperate - is generally seen as required, so ASCII is very seldom used. ASCII-only is a primitive leftover from the typographically-impoverished dawn of computing. Can we get over it already? -T _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
