Charles,
Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 4:10:21 AM, you wrote:
Charles> The issue being discussed is whether implementations exist that will
Charles> handle Netnews articles as proposed in the Usefor draft.
And therein lies the exact problem. You have missed was is really being
discussed by the folks pointing out problems with "just do UTF-8".
The issue is not whether there is an existence proof for the practise you
want to standardize. The issue is, instead, the impact of a new standard on
the installed base that uses the old standard.
d/
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