From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 13:55:34 CST
On 2/14/03 1:20 PM, Russ Allbery at <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> J B Moreno <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:
>
>> There *will* be untagged 8-bit content -- the only question is whether
>> we can convince people to use UTF8 or not.
>
> Again, this isn't the only question. There are two questions: whether we
> can convince people to use UTF-8 or not, and whether convincing some
> people to use UTF-8 will result in a net improvement in the current
> situation.
Sloppy wording on my point -- I thought the "enough people to be worth
while" was inherent in my use of "people"; but apparently not (convincing
the odd person here or there wouldn't make a difference).
> (I assume that we can all stipulate to the fact that no matter what we do,
> we're not going to convince *everyone* to use UTF-8?)
Over the next 5-10 years, yeah, not everyone will be using UTF-8 -- but it's
possible we could make national charsets extremely rare.
-- J.B. Moreno