Karl Berry wrote: > Yes, but rms has explicitly rejected (in previous email with me) the > idea of recommending the use of UTF-8 in any context whatsoever. Sigh.
Sigh. What you wrote there: If you need to use non-ASCII characters, for example to represent names of contributors, you should normally stick with one encoding, as one cannot in general mix encodings reliably. is a salomonic solution: to educated people it recommends Unicode, without mentioning it explicitly. > My personal experience is that it is true that Unicode is still > considerably less widely usable than Latin1. Sure, Unicode is available > in many contexts and systems. But the names in your message, just for > example, came through as garbage to me. That depends on your mailer. Is it a package in Emacs, or is it 'pine' without Bernhard Kaindl's patches? > No doubt I personally could > eventually configure everything involved to display it properly, but the > point is that it doesn't "just work". True: there are some distributions where things don't "just work", but these non-Unicode-enabled corners are diminishing. Maybe you can reformulate the last two paragraphs in a way that is less incorrect? > PS: The right spelling of the encodings is "Latin1" (no dash, no space) > > I'm glad to know that, it's easier to type than @tie{} :). I had mostly > seen it with a space. Do you happen to know where the definitive > spelling is given? It's at the IANA: http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets Bruno _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib