From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 12:56:50 CDT
In <3D97AA42.3070308@alex.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>Erland Sommarskog wrote:
>> Maybe you should trying to understand that raw UTF-8 in newsgroup
>> names is not something we only made up for fun: it does reflect
>> actual user requirements.
>I doubt that any significant number of users insisted on UTF-8
>specifically. ...
Indeed not. They all wanted ISO-8859-1. We had endless discussion in the
early days of this list to persuade them that only UTF-8 could give the
required global flexibility.
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