Re: Ambiguity on 8859-* and bi-directionality

[Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> > but I'm very against
> > any attempt to retroactively legitimize the use of escape sequences
> > at all (let alone to indicate directionality) in MIME standard 
> > charsets.
> 
> I think everyone agrees you save retroactiveness. Japanese daily use
> escape sequences.

That's fine, because the ISO-2022-JP spec defines these escape
sequences and what they mean.  I only object to the use of
escape sequences for other charsets that don't define them.

Keith