Tim Bray <tbray at textuality dot com> wrote:
Right now ascii text is probably the most widely-supported display
format.
- ASCII is not usable for the languages of a large majority of the
world's population.
I suspect Melinda meant to say "plain text," and wasn't intending to mix
up the "ASCII vs. Unicode" debate with the "plain vs. formatted text"
debate.
I predict people will continue to combine the character-encoding issue,
the formatted-text issue, the pretty-pictures issue, and the
document-creation issue into one big amorphous blob, significantly
extending the length of time it will take to agree upon and solve any of
these problems.
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