From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel@acm.org)
Date: Wed Jul 04 2001 - 10:37:29 CDT
In <GFy3q0.AJJ@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, on 07/04/2001
at 10:56 AM, chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) said:
>Yes, we are clearly in disagreement. Perhaps we two should stand
>aside and listen to what others have to say. There was certainly VERY
>strong pressure in the early days of this list to push everything
>hard in the 8bit direction. People who still think that way need to
>speak up.
I never thought that it made sense to have character dependencies in a
protocol. It's time to bite the bullet and move at least a baby step
towards binary. Likewise, it's time to move away from the Tower of
Babel, even if Unicode has warts.
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