In <200301150254(_dot_)h0F2sPW22508(_at_)panix5(_dot_)panix(_dot_)com> Seth
Breidbart <sethb(_at_)panix(_dot_)com> writes:
My take is that some people want/need to send 8-bit, so if the
standard says "don't" they ignore it (and find that it works,
mostly). If the standard says "Here's how to do it properly" most of
them will be perfectly happy doing it that way.
Exactly so. If the standard stays silent, the present chaos will surely
increase. If it provides an approved way to do it, then there is at least
the possibility that people will move over to that way.
I am still worried that the Chinese will stick with GB18030, though, and
there is no clean solution to that in sight. That might leave them as a
"cooperating subnet" (and that is just a polite way of saying they were
rogue :-) ).
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