From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19538 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Coleman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Info on Internationalization Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 19:27:27 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199812030027.TAA06183@math.gatech.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157871 12154 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:51:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:51:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA10361 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:28:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA17040; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 18:27:21 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 02 Dec 1998 18:26:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA06908 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 18:26:51 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from math.gatech.edu (root@math.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA10327 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:26:31 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from math.gatech.edu (coleman@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA06183 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:27:27 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen of "03 Dec 1998 01:05:17 +0100." Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 25 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19538 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19538 > Richard Coleman writes: > > > The report is available at > > The document is clearly advocacy, though. They acknowledge that no > clients have UTF-8 support, but they then go on to say things like > this: > > Recommendation: All mail-creating programs created or revised after > January 1, 1999, must be able to create mail using the UTF-8 > charset. Another way to say this is that any program created or > revised after January 1, 1999, that cannot create mail using the UTF-8 > charset should be considered deficient and lacking in standard > internationalization capabilities. Of course, all mail-creating > programs should try to meet this requirement as early as possible. The IMC recommendation to use UTF-8 is probably a good one. But their deadline of 1/1/99 is at least 5 years too early. The report suggests reading through the first few chapters of the Unicode Report. That might be a good idea. -- Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu