On Wednesday November 27 2013 20:56, you wrote to me:
MvdV>> UTF-8 and 7 bit only can co-exist and so they will.
KE> And will feed numerous disputes, when cut and paste operations will KE> produce Bjerk and Mjerk.
Sure. He who wants to beat a dog, will always find a stick. That is no reason to ban all sticks. Banning sticks from the forst isn't practical either.
KE> It is nice if Bjorn get his umlaut. But the o umlaut does not have a KE> a fixed position in the code table, so then we can have a dispute KE> about the wich encoding to use. The group that can benefit most, will KE> be in R50, but then Bjorn still does not have his o umlaut.
If sysops are allowed to have their name (or their city) properly spelled in their own alphabet, all should have equal opportunity. If Björn is allowed a Swedish character, then the Russians should be allowed to have their name in Cyrillic in the nodelist.
We know this can't be realised with just one eight bit character encoding scheme and I do not see how a mixed encodig scheme can be made to work. The only logical solution that favours no one is UTF-8.
KE> Moving to UTF-8 could be a solution, but leads to interesting times.
