Excerpts from junk.info-mime: 16-Nov-94 Re: SWEDISH CHARACTERS IN E..
Peter Sylvester(_at_)inria(_dot_)fr (1556)
PS: There are people who think that 'backspaceA
where backspace is the backspace char gives you
a much better idea of an A with accent than =XY
True enough. There are also:
-- People whose mail readers DIE when they get this (really!)
-- People whose terminals simply turn this into A, and don't like this
fact (i.e. they'd rather know it was a special character!)
-- People whose programs display this as
'^HA
which really isn't better than =XY. (The tool I'm using at the moment
is in this category.)
Without a standard, you can't possibly make everyone happy. -- Nathaniel
Yes, and that's the problem of the unregulated combinations of
combining characters of ISO10646/UNICODE.
People who are satisfied with Latin-1 or other precombined
characters may not be able to notice the problem, though.
Masataka Ohta