Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Conventions for how you encode your language is something you must > work out with your correspondent.
What are the conventions for a mailing list with an unbounded audience? My message that triggered your revulsion was tagged appropriately with its character set and encoding declared. It didn't violate any rules; it did, however, impose a burden for the reader's software to honor the character set declaration, or risk seeing an unknown glyph. You've mentioned that you like UTF-8. So do I, but it's entirely reasonable to assume that the software in use for participation in this English-dominated mailing list would be able to grapple with Latin-1 encoding -- provided that the encoding in use is declared appropriately. -- Steven E. Harris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
