I'd be careful with this attitude if I were you....
-- citing RFC1345 only proves that Keld's interpretation
of ANSI X3.4 is that codepoint 41 octal is an exclamation point.
To be pragmatic, it is the interpretation of almost all people.
Ahh.. but that's the *current* interpretation. I've used a lot
of keyboards that were convinced that a 41 octal was a vertical
bar. I've used a lot of keyboards that didn't understand the
circumflex character (reading the Berkeley 'curses' source, you'll
come across the phrase "Hazeltine Brain Damage"...).
The pragmatic decision to make pedantists silient is to register
"charset=ascii-pl/i" also.
But, as a pragmatist, I think such a charset won't be used at all.
Pragmatic decision: To make the PL/I subset fit into the requisite
number of characters, 2 ASCII codepoints are ambigiously defined,
Pragmatic decision: If two glyphs looks similar, they gets assigned
the same codepoint. This leads to the ISO8859-1 sharing of
It seems to me that you are not a well trained pragmatist.
It appears that
every time we let "pragmatism" enter into it, dissimilar characters
are equated for expediency's sake...
That was the pragmatism of the past.
Pragmatists change thier policy according to available technology and
other pragmatic factors.
Masataka Ohta