Re: Info on Internationalization

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> writes:

> The report is available at <http://www.imc.org/mail-i18n.html>

Quite interesting.  Summary of the document: UTF-8!  UTF-8!  UTF-8!
So, is there any UTF-8 support on the horizon for the Emacsen?

(I found the terminology in the document interesting, though -- they
refer to UFT-8 as a "charset".  Hee hee hee hee!  Ok, they explain
that it's really a CES (character encoding scheme), but it's a charset
anyway.  (Not a character set; that's different.  A charset.  :-)

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: 

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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.
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Lack *this*, IMC!  :-)

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