Re: [Ltru] Re: UTF-8

Martin Duerst scripsit:

> Well, and then interpreted as Shift-JIS in the case of my
> mailer :-(. Our spec as well as the HTTP headers will say
> that it's UTF-8. That should be enough. People who are
> okay to see garbage will be as satisfied with Bokm&#xE5;
> as they are with Bokm?$B%F!&l, or any other weird rendering,
> but people who like to see the real thing will be best
> served by UTF-8.

Bokm&#xE5;l is at least reconstructible without knowing anything
except the SGML character reference conventions and the
codepoints of Unicode characters; Bokm?$B%F!&l (which is the
way it got to me, sans ESC characters) is nothing but rubbish.

This is an *excellent* example of why we need explicit escaping
(for which SGML is as good a convention as any) rather than
encoding, given the present state of email.

-- 
John Cowan  cowan@ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side
with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
        --Gerald Holton

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