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Re: Internationalization of the Internet

1994-11-19 09:27:54
Rhys,

At 10:37 PM 11/18/94, Mr Rhys Weatherley wrote:
On Sat, 19 Nov 1994, Masataka Ohta wrote:
discussions with him in private e-mail, and it seems that he is positing a
complete overhaul of text on the Internet, whether it be in mail messages,

As the Internet has grown, there has never been any meaningful debate
against the need to support fully internationalized text throughout the
net.  The Mime effort was delayed at least 6 months by virtue of its
attempts to satisfy this desire.  The charset= parameter is the best the
working group could come up with.

To my knowledge, the problem has not gotten any easier.  Hence, it is not
productive to discuss this topic in general, anymore.  The only thing that
makes sense is for folks who want to suggest changes to create detailed
specifications and submit them for review.

But 'complete overhaul of text on the Internet' is not the purview of this
mailing list.  AND this mailing list has quite-extensively discussed and
pursued the degree of overhaul it is capable of, several years ago.  It's
time to stop beating this horse.  It isn't just dead.  It's been
biologically recycled; the daisies it's pushing up might not be pretty, but
they're what we've got.

d/

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