> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:54:27AM +0200, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
>>>So my non-ASCII characters look incorrect in your MUA because you're
>>>stuck in an insane locale? Too bad. That pain is self-inflicted.
>>
>> Don't blame me, I'm not the one who created all those funky European accented
>> characters, etc.
>
>All these 'funky' characters predate to the first english written text.
>You are not the center of the world, and ASCII has a lot of signs that
>are not used by other languages: $, #, _AT_, ', ", &. Almost of them are
>english centrics.
>
>> Really within the English language, there's really only a need for 128
>> characters. All other (European) characters tend to only be seen within
>> International communications. Most within the US have no need for the European
>> characters, etc.
>
>Yes, but there are billons of persons of comunicating in these
>other languages, in fact the majority of the population of
>the world.
You're not completely understanding what has been stated here. I'd suggest
re-reading the thread.
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Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
Received on Fri Apr 03 2015 - 02:59:33 CEST