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OT: rant, was: Re: e-mail encoding/formatting



* Stephan Seitz <nur-ab-sal@xxxxxx> wrote:

<rant>

> >It does mean that, if you can communicate just as effectively
> >without using them, but using them excludes people unfairly.  This
> >is exactly

Think about what he said.

The point is that you are allowed use all the fancy new stuff on your
system, but you should not put a burden on people to keep up. It's a
fine principle that will outlive any standard you might want to argue
with.

 
> I will tell it the people at debian-japanese to use ASCII even when
> writing Japanese. I think they will understand that it is completly
> unfair to use an encoding that can?$B!Gt be read in all locale.

Oh please...

I really fail to see why you seem to like rather extreme viewpoints
to base your (mostly far-fetched) arguments (analogies) on. Sometimes
I even wonder if you deliberately don't want to understand, or just
like to twist. This is an English speaking mailing list about mutt
*users*, focussing on that might actually help, in my not so humble
opinion.

Back in fidonet times, there was a saying: I don't care what you do
on your system but make sure it doesn't annoy others.

Compromise. If you want to make a point of switching debilan systems
worldwide to UTF-8 or whatever for the sake of genuine world peace,
please do so on a debilan mailing list. Maybe they already are. I do
not care. If you want to switch all linux systems to UTF-8 take over
the common-sense using world. I do not care. You might even want to
bring some Japanese along for they seem to like you pulling them into
this shiny matter of localising one's system to the public's needs
instead of what common sense tells us: localise to one's own needs.

in short: locale = own system. mailing list = common ground. just use
common sense to cover it.

Even God did not use UTF-8, he made Moses use ASCII.

<hint>There was a reason.</hint> 

If in doubt, use ASCII. If you want to reach as many people as
possible, use ASCII. etc.

I think God wrote that draft in UTF-8 but he had the brains to
actually apply a send_charset kludge so that Moses understood what he
was to write, so that the vast majority of readers unterstood what he
wrote. By doing that God got all the suckers asking about the special
meaning of those strange ?$B!G characters in his commandments off his
back. Clever guy, isn't he?

Which leads me to the conclusion that the 10 Commandments as we know
them in fact are only a revision... *cough, Scotty, now would be a
good time*

Kyle, you God of UTF-8, what about applying that send_charset kludge,
hm? Stephan, you knight of UTF-8, what about early retirement? you
still could do consulting...

Btw, this is EOD for me. Enough ranting.

</rant>

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