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Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: IETF-822

"John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Fri, 15 June 2012 19:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: IETF-822
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>Maybe, in the interest of interplanetaryization (i19n ?) and
>multigalacticism (m13m ?) we should start using FoPSCII and
>Galicode references in our documents and noting that ASCII and
>Unicode are temporary substitutes.

It hardly seems worth the effort, since the only difference between
ASCII and FoPSCII is that the ASCII # is replaced by the modern
currency symbol, and, of course, they put the little gap back in the
vertical bar to resolve the concerns about religious and cultural
insensitivty.

R's,
John

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