Russ,
Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 1:07:28 PM, you wrote:
Russ> Dave Crocker <dcrocker(_at_)brandenburg(_dot_)com> writes:
Russ> I think you're badly misunderstanding my point. I'm on your side. :)
damn. i thought we were working on a really good disagreement.
Russ> My point is that just putting "use UTF-8" in a standard doesn't actually
Russ> solve any problems, nor does it cause people to switch all their
Russ> unlabelled 8-bit content over to UTF-8.
indeed, all this is an exact echo of the 'just use binary' arguments
from 10 years ago, for MIME vs. 8-bit SMTP.
d/
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