Borka,
I posted the charter of the RARE Character sets group and you know
RARE is the european organization of research networks and you have
to consider that the charter has european flavor.
It was not clear to my slightly fuzzy mind that this was a RARE charter.
As such, it is clearly reasonable.
Unfortunately, 8-bit coding does not solve the european problems.
ISO 8859/1 is not enough for "west" european language, i.e some letters
are missing for french and in addition we need for central Europe
ISO 8859/2 and for Cyrillic ISO 8859/5 and for an additional coding
table for Greek.
Oh, I know, I know. And you didn't mention Georgian, Armenia, the
Ukranian characters that didn't make it into 8859/5,....
The Internet is a worldwide net and we have to work on some
common denominator.
On this we are certainly in agreement. My concern is that we work on a
worldwide common denominator rather than getting diverted into a
regional one.
john