From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 13:46:33 CST
J B Moreno <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:
> Perhaps we are talking past each other: I'm basing my comments on how
> the user interacts with the character set in the clients I am most
> familiar with (OE, Netscape, MTNW, Thoth). You chose a character set,
> and then the program is responsible for converting what you type into
> the relevant byte values when posting.
This is the sort of discussion that I could have with you in person with a
white board, but which is just way too frustrating for me to try to have
through e-mail when there's a giant chasm between your understanding and
my understanding of the technical issues involved. (Please note that I'm
not saying and do not mean to imply that one of us is more right than the
other, just that we're coming from opposite sides of the planet.)
Trying isn't actually helping anything and is just making me angry, so I'm
going to stop. Sorry. I wish I was better at explaining.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>