Re: New Linux 4word

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Terry Loveall wrote:

> 4word was designed to aid communications between humans as much as it was
> designed to efficiently communicate with the computer. The bulk of human
> communication is in ASCII format, e.g. email and web browsing. Saw no point in
> having two different text interfaces.
>

I don't understand this rationale. While protocols for transfering web 
pages (HTTP), and email (SMTP), are encoded in ASCII, the actual contents 
may not be encoded in ASCII. With the proliferation of Unicode you will 
end dealing with more than one kind of text encoding even for english. I 
don't see what bearing this has on the source representation or even the 
interface for text composistion.

Mark