On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:00:34PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 01, Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Most people (with the possible exception of part of the CJK > >> community) do not want to use unicode yet, deal with it. > > > >Excuse me? "With the possible exception of the CJK community"? What > >about people speaking (and writing/typing) Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, > >Russian and whatnot? > I don't know about Arabic and Hebrew, but russian people don't like > unicode and do not want to switch from the KOI-8 and KOI-8r encodings. >
UNLESS they need to communicate with people from other charset groups (It directly concerns me - I need(ed) to work with both russian and slovak) > > I gather you're Italian, so you might need some > >accents (I remember seeing some "?"). > Yes, and I already have a correctly working national encoding, thank you. > Do you? Just send me a mail in italian... and we'll see how much of its accents will display as '?' And I already have a correctly working national encoding, too. > > In *my* experience, most people *do* want to use Unicode. I would > Just don't force it on everybody else. I agree... as long as you do not force ISO-8859-1 (or anything) on everybody, as it is currently in debian. Remember, debian is international > > I'd love to be able to use unicode for everything, but the reality is > that the software is not yet good enough to support it to the same level > of the national encodings. > So let's fix the software. All my programs are if not unicode aware, then at least not unicode hostile. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | 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!
