On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:22:08PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
What do people think of these ideas?
1) For Character Set, replace ASCII with UTF-8. As the former is
phasing out and being replaced by the latter.
This has been a controversial thing over the years. My opinion is that
it is not yet Okay to declare ascii dead. There are still terminals
which cannot handle UTF-8. What we currently say is to use ASCII unless
there is a good reason to require a more comprehensive character set, in
which case use UTF-8. I think that's how it should stay - at least
for now.
2) For Fonts, there are no recommendations mentioned. Make GNU FreeFont
and/or GNU UniFont as recommended fonts. So that fonts are consistent
among all GNU Packages/Programs.
I don't know what this is supposed to mean. "Programs" don't "use"
fonts. Some programs are capable of rendering text in a font (usually
of the user's choice). It might make sense to have a recommendation
for typeset documents. But by default we use Texinfo for documentation,
and TeX doesn't use either of the two fonts that the writer mentions.
J'
