On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:31:12PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:17:43PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > Maintainers are being encouradged to use UTF-8, having in mind the general > > tendency toward unified character encoding. > > Nice things these general tendencies... in my country we still have problems > using ISO 8859-2 because Windows 1250 has polluted everything. Adding > another one to the pile is likely to screw things up even more. <sigh>
and in my country, we have the same, plus 1 more common (though already dying) MS DOS encoding, plus two more (thanks god already dead) pre-msdos encodings, plus one MS DOS encoding that was "officially given from IBM" but never really caught up, plus CE-Mac encoding (fortunately Macintoshes were a really rare beasts here), plus this university had a lot of DEC terminals with its own CE encoding (reading mail archives from the past is FUN, there was no Content-Encoding invented) And when I travel several hundred kilometers in each of NWES direction, there is one, sometimes even two or three, different and incompatible encodings for each place I arrive to. There has to be an end to this. > > </rant> :) > </rant too> :-) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
