>Nick Nicholas <opoudjis at optushome dot com dot au> wrote: > >> If software can't cope with the PUA, that *is* defeating the purpose >> of the PUA (two people can and should be allowed to exchange data in >> it by agreement, they just shouldn't expect everyone else to >> subscribe to that agreement). > >The best explanation of the PUA I've heard in a long time. If Nick's >words aren't the absolute truth, a lot of assumptions I've been making >about the PUA for the past 7 years are blown out of the water.
It seems to me that modern software is perfectly able to "cope" with the PUA. Using OS X I can read and write email and web pages in Cirth, Tengwar, and Klingon perfectly well. The problems mentioned earlier in this thread disappear if one uses correct html/css for websites and uses html mail rather than plain text with the Mozilla mail client, which otherwise won't let you choose the font for incoming mail.

