On 2011-11-26 21:52, Yaakov Stein wrote:
That leaves ASCII, a few forms of PDF, and RFC 5198-conforming UTF-8.
That wouldn't bother me much, but be careful what you wish form.
What we have been told is that the rationale behind the use of ASCII and
several other formats
is that they will remain readable on devices that will be used X years hence.
ASCII is already unreadable on many popular devices
and in a few years will be no better than old versions of word.
...
Can we *please* distinguish between the character encoding we use
(US-ASCII) and the file format (text/plain)?
If *we* don't get this right, how can we expect anybody else to get it
right?
Best regards, Julian
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