[Lexicog] Who Said What?

[Kenneth C. Hill]

Yes, Peter, I originally thought it offensive to communicate with Spanish
speakers using a reduced set of characters, but their response was
positive enough that I think we're a little too condescending at times
thinking that technological limitations that are American in origin are
something to be so embarrassed about that we don't consider the
communicative needs of people who are limited by them. There are many
issues that Americans might properly be embarrassed about, but it seems to
me that the limited ASCII character set ranks quite low on the list. All
I've done is to suggest a workaround for people who are concerned that
certain recipients might not be able to read something that's important in
a message.

--Ken

--- Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya.org> wrote:

> On 27/09/2004 20:15, Kenneth C. Hill wrote:
>
> >I thoroughly agree with John. Let's try to keep our postings maximally
> >readable. I also agree with Bill Poser that Unicode is A Good Idea, but
> >since many recipients can't deal with various different kinds of
> encoding,
> >much less the different colors John cites, I plan to continue using the
> >ASCII-compatible representations that I've been using since DOS days. I
> >often have to flip among various encoding settings in Microsoft
> Internet
> >Explorer before examples cited by members of this list are readable.
> >Probably many out there are using software that doesn't allow that.
> >
> >
>
> Ken, I wonder if you have ever thought that it might be offensive to
> others on an international list to insist that they write their own
> languages, not properly with the international standard code which
> supports them, but in a form mangled to fit an American code, ASCII?
>
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter at qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
>



		
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