Re: restrictions when defining charsets

> Do you *really* want pragmatism, or do you want everybody to
> be quite pendantic over the meanings of things? ...
This was more or less the point I was getting at:  if you say "ASCII is
a charset, because we all know what it's supposed to mean, but Unicode
can't be one, because it has ambiguities", this is very, shall we say,
*selective* pragmatism, and there is a distinct smell of hidden agendas.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          
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