2008/4/26 s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why would I be _for_ switching? I'm a unilingual Anglophile. utf-8 > would gain me nothing. I'm glad utf-8 (et al) finally exists for > those of you who who can use it or need it. However, it's irrelevant > here. I only know English, and can puzzle out some words in other > related western European languages. > > I'd guess my $HOME probably is mostly uncompressed text, source and > documentation. >
For you, there is no real reason to switch. However, there are those who use proprietary encodings such as cp-* who's mail ends up as gibberish to the rest of the world. If you are ASCII-only, then no advantage to you. Carry on. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
