* Derek Martin <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I use UTF-8, so your choice of encoding does not any longer annoy > me, other than philisophically; however I know a lot of people who > are not native English speakers, and have to deal with this problem > all the time. It sucks for them, and I sympathize. It's been > brought up twice in the last month; that should make it clear that > you are, in fact, causing difficulties for people. For every > person who speaks up, how many do not? > > Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. I agree. The emphasis in this matter clearly is on usability and not on what's technically possible. While reading Stephan's reply somehow the image of "All your base are belong to UTF-8!" popped into my mind, even in curly quotes. Nevermind ;-) -- left blank, right bald
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