On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:58:37PM +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)
Oh, yes, there are those lame things here, too... replacing @ with ¾ and other insane things. Luckily they're rather rare, and becoming more rare all the time. > There has to be an end to this. Yes, but I doubt we are going to be able to put an end to it. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
