Ma Be wrote:
>
> No problem, Bill.
>
> Your last comment below reminded me of another very annoying issue that still upsets
>me greatly. It's absolutely atrocious that we still haven't addressed the issue of
>special characters properly in the last versions of MIME. By golly, isn't it about
>time that it starts accepting AT LEAST, at a minimum, ALL special characters of
>Western civilizations??? This really infuriates me!
>
> Also, it's utterly unacceptable that they do not tackle the superscript/subscript
>issue, either. How long will we still have to wait till computers catch up with us,
>humans?... :-(
>
> NOTE: And not that it would be so terribly difficult to implement such changes...
If there's one thing that my work on standards has taught me, it's that
universal agreement and compliance is incredibly difficult. It's not the
technology that is the problem, it's the people and the variety of
opinions they hold, couple with the variety of options they possess.
To make something so standard that it's routinely available without
thought or effort, one must either have monopolistic control or have an
idea that has no conflicting alternatives. Even with Microsoft's alleged
95 % of the market, look at how much difficulty there is in sharing
documents between Windows and MacOS systems!
Jim
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