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Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-12-02 05:34:01
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:

To do so this group "uses the English 
language for its work is because of its utility for working in a global 
context.". This is an old religion. ASCII is part of it. From the very 
beginning.

I'm tired of this kind of fallacy.

ASCII is not English.

A charset is not tied to some content language.

For exmaple, the line below is in Japanese language spelled in ASCII.

        Uso ha yasumi yasumi tsuke.

                                                        Masataka Ohta


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