LL-L "Software" 2003.02.10 (01) [E]

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From: Ruud Harmsen <rh at rudhar.com>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2003.02.09 (06) [E/S]

13:11 9-2-2003 -0800, Lowlands-L, John M. Tait <jmtait at wirhoose.co.uk>:
>This in itself could be an argument against diacritics. Suppose
someone with
>a casual interest in Scots subscribes to this list and finds they
(apologies
>for the execrable English!) can't read the submissions because all the
>Unicode symbols come across as two-byte ASCII hieroglyphs - won't
they just
>not bother? Or this might be an argument for using the ordinary ASCII
>international character codes

ASCII has no international codes. because it has only 7 bits.
ISO-8859 being 8 bits has, but it comes in different flavours, one
for each group of languages. Moreover, Unicode encoded as UTF-8 (as
used here on the list) _is_ ASCII except where special characters
are required.

>rather than Unicode except where Unicode is
>absolutely necessary.

Exactly the idea behind UTF-8.

>Joking apart,  I can't say very much about it as I still haven't
managed to
>find an e-mail client which can handle Unicode (and I do _not_
intend to
>start using Outlook Express, after all the hassle I've had deleting
e-mail
>worms from other people's computers.) Has anyone got any advice?

I'm using an old Eudora myself, but I expect newer versions of
Eudora ( http://www.eudora.com/ ), "The Bat!" (
http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/ ), and Pegasus do support UTF8?
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http://rudhar.com

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