On 2009-04-27 23:09:34 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > Furthermore defaults must be engineered for newbies. Newbies don't have > emotional attachment to legacy charsets (or even know what a charset is). > They just want to things to work, and if everything were utf-8, things > would work better. > > A practical example would be a newbie doing a copy-paste from a thunderbird > "raw" message view to another application.
The internal encoding should be transparent for the end user, in particular for newbies. If it isn't, the application is really broken. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
