>ASCII was good enough for my father and his father before him, and his father >before him. The tablets that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai, were in >ASCII, as were Newton's Principia, the Magna Carta, and the United States >Declaration of Independence.
I hate to be pedantic (okay, I don't really), but wouldn't the Tablets of Stone have been written in a Hebrew script, and thus could have not been represented in ASCII? My only question is, did they use ISO-8859-8 or Unicode? Also, I do not think you could accurately represent the Principia without some of the mathematical symbols available in Unicode. I mean, it's hard to do a² + b² = c², or √-1 = i, or explain that π goes to ∞ in just ASCII. >MIME is a Communist, Fascist, Perverse, Papal, cabal work of the Devil, to >undermine all that is good, holy, just and right. Meh ... that ship has sailed. I was able receive an Portable Document Format™ file in email, add an electronc signature to it, and send it back all without having to waste any paper. So it's not all bad. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
