Re: [Ltru] Re: UTF-8

Addison Phillips scripsit:

> >Bokm?$B%F!&l (which is the
> >way it got to me, sans ESC characters) is nothing but rubbish.
> 
> Well, that's mozibake: it's ISO 2022-JP encoding of the Shift-JIS 
> characters made by mis-interpreting UTF-8 bytes. Lovely.

Not even.  My mailer suppresses ESC characters altogether,
so the result is pure printable ASCII again, ergo unreconstructible.

> But that consideration doesn't apply to the registry file. It only 
> applies to the discussion of a registry entry on ietf-languages. 
> Admittedly MUAs vary greatly in their support for encodings, but we can 
> certainly specify directions for how to send the registration request to 
> the list so that everyone can tell what code points are intended and 
> other instructions for how to encode those characters in the registry.

Directions which work uniformly across all native encodings, operating
environments, and mailers?  I venture to doubt it.

> Suggestions to limit the character repertoire strike me as counter 
> productive too. 

+1

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