Re: Re: Support for Internationalized Explanations

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:19:18PM +0100, Chris Haynes wrote:
>  It's my belief that the recipient is the only person who can decide which
> language is the appropriate one to use for the explanation sent to her
> 'legitimate' senders.  Restricting the character set to US-ASCII effectively
> restricts the language choice to English - a minority language when assessed
> globally.
Of course, by choosing UTF-8, you ignore the fact that there are big languages 
that can not be expressed in UTF-8 (Russian, Korean, Chinese, ....). So while 
it servers your purposes, what does it solve on the grander scheme??

Koen

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