Re: a few short notes

Martin Duerst <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ng
Message-ID <4.2.0.58.J.20040202121849.07be7ef8@localhost> 
At 14:52 04/02/02 +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

>The only conclusion that's obvious is that email is a global system so 
>requiring capabilities we can't reasonably expect to be available globally 
>(ie, the ability to manipulate non-latin characters) is not an option.

If you use UTF-8, then the only ability you really need globally is
the ability to manipulate streams of 8-bit bytes. Any problems with that?

Regards,   Martin.
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.