> Moin Alex!
>
> AY> I would like to question the need for this requirement.
>
> ???
Aren't you questioning my right to do that? :)
> AY> While this can be of importance to some users, it can be quite
> AY> annoying to others.
>
> ??? Please remember, a lot of languages need 8 bit clean programs. Non 8
> bit clean programs are very bad.
True. Many users need support for the language other than English.
Some of that users need 8-bit clean programs AND still some additional
customization. Some languages even have many optionas as to customization.
(Take Russian - several possible encodings AND keyboard layouts).
For some languages it is even not enough to have 8-bit clean programs.
You can't satisfy all users anyway. In addition, I would hate to be
able to switch to "russian" keyboard mode (by mistake) and enter some
letters which look just like English ones in the editor I use for
_programming_.
> AY> What it means is saying "good-bye" to clean
> AY> ascii e-mail, etc.
>
> ???
Yes. I don't like when I see 8-bit charachters. In my
"non-internationalized" configuration they look like "<F23>"
highlighted (or something like that). So?
(PLEASE, no flames for *this* - I also don't like very much PGP
signatures as MIME attachements)
> AY> What is more important, *some* utilities,
> AY> "less" most notably, *shouldn't* be 8-bit clean.
>
> Why? I would like to see German Umlaute.
Sure, but I would like to be able to do "less <binary file>" safely.
("more" is not safe for this).
Finally, the only thing I am trying to tell is that it is probaly not
very wise to put as a requirement for *every* package to be 8-bit
clean. (Note my point with the editor used for programming). I would
suggest to use individual approach and have options for the user
to choose whenever possible.
Thanks.
Alex Y.
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