----- Original Message ----- > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 09:44:35AM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > > I'm at a bit of a loss to understand the adversarial direction this > > conversation has taken. I was unaware that charsets were such a > > controversial topic. > > > You've missed all the fun :)
Like Rich, I'm mostly oblivious of the topic.. > > Meanwhile, we still have incorrectly displayed content on our site. > > Mostly, I'm interested in solving this, but charsets have always > > been something of a mystery to me. I suppose that comes of being a > > mono-lingual American. > > > 7-bit ascii ought to be enough for everyone? > I'm +1 to getting that default charset change reverted (at least for > the > httpd site). If anyone wants to make a compelling argument in favor > of > going utf-8, that's something for another day imho. I speak ~three languages, of which English is the only one without special characters. The other two don't fit into the same Charset, so UTF-8, or rather Unicode, is the only way to go if I want to write my Name and my Address correctly: Galić, ..straße.. Now: Rather than just blindly reverting the change could someone actually explain what's going on? Exactly why we're fighting a religious war here? > vh > > Mads Toftum > -- > http://soulfood.dk i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: [email protected] URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
