begin quoting Steven E. Harris as of Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:21:10AM -0800: > 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?
ASCII. > 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're pushing a burden on to the reader that righly belongs with the writer. > You've mentioned that you like UTF-8. No, you're confusing me with someone else. > 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. It's reasonable to assume 80 characters by 24 characters, ASCII, and a monospaced font. Beyond that, it's just assuming. -- VT100 escape sequences can be so much fun. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
