At 1:24 PM 11/18/94, David Goldsmith wrote:
Please stop attacking Unicode on this list. This list is about 822 and mail
David, I know you didn't cite my own note, but I got some private mail
expressing concern that my claim that we were not trying to standardize
Unicode for the Internet was, perhaps, a criticism of Unicode.
Just to beat this into the ground: I don't know enough to have an opinion
about Unicode. My comment was trying to remind folks that the Mime group
spent a very painful year considering character set standardization and
gave up. And I believe nothing has changed since then.
My own suggestion is that when someone tries to use this list for pursuing
such topics, we should all privately send them a short note saying "that's
off the topic of this list and was considered by a working group several
years ago." Perhaps if enough of us do it, folks will get the idea?
d/
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