-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/08 00:43, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 8:27 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> email was intended to be ASCII (or something discernable as it), and >> we have MIME attachments to deal with the rest. I don't need or want >> anything more than that from email. Apologies to those (the rest of >> the Universe) for which ASCII is inappropriate. For me, email is >> text. My text (English) is ASCII. > > I agree that email should be text, not html, and that it should be saved > in a standard format (but which one? All mbox varieties have problems, > MH format has problems, and Maildir and Maildir++ have problems). > > However, I vehemently disagree that email should be ascii. This is
But that's how the US maintains it's hegemony over the Internet... Well, that and the fact that (compared to "calligraphic", pictographic & hieroglyphic languages) Greco-Latin alphabets are small, simple, regularized, easy to print, and a perfect basis for extensible vocabulary. > 2008 and the planet is more united than it has ever been. Unicode, > particularly utf-8 should be and is the new standard. Users of the > Latin alphabet, and especially English speakers, have no reason > to complain since utf-8 is backwards compatible with ascii. > > Any slight disadvantages unicode might have are more than > outweighed by the communication barriers it breaks down. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHqbLnS9HxQb37XmcRAuFzAJ9PCfOPiP0KIPSuSCo2eTvpxM9SmQCgvcM+ bEUpl5JgtgAeLafyi4HiFw0= =YlDT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
