Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem
"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Thu, 12 July 2007 18:23 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem
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Hi - > From: "CE Whitehead" <cewcathar@hotmail.com> > To: <ltru@ietf.org>; <ietf-languages@iana.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:52 AM > Subject: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem ... > ACII or ANSI? (ASCII is just basic Latin, right, so the accented characters > will not display; for Latin-1 you need ANSI) ... As a technical contributor: The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is not a character set. The IETF's BCP0018 has been in place for a *long* time, and it makes sense to employ its recommendation: use UTF-8. I've spent a fair amount of time using the computing facilities available to the general public in a small sampling of third-world countries. I've had no problem displaying UTF-8. Tools and appropriate fonts (on ancient and under-powered recycled machines) have not been a problem. Perhaps others' experience is different, but I have little sympathy for claims that appropriate tools are unavailable to the developers who would be using this data. If your public library's computing facilities are not on a par with a typical third-world internet cafe, then you have a problem more critical to your community than the encoding of an IANA registry. (Think globally, act locally?) If someone wants to provide "added value" (or would it be "reduced value"?) versions of the registry contents, that's *their* perogative, but I think we should not be spending our time and energy defining what those (by definition out of our scope) projects might do. Randy _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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- Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Chris Newman
- RE: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Peter Constable
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- Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Mark Davis
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- RE: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Kent Karlsson
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Addison Phillips
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Martin Duerst
- [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem CE Whitehead
- [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem Randy Presuhn