- From: MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:56:02 +0900
- To: "Aaron Swartz" <me@aaronsw.com>
- Cc: "WWW-Tag" <www-tag@w3.org>, ietf-xml-mime@imc.org
On 21 Sep 2003 22:06:30 -0500 "Aaron Swartz" <me@aaronsw.com> wrote: > > I think that persuading users is more difficult than > > persuading programmers. I have encouraged use of Unicode > > for XML in Japan, but nothing has happened. > > The users shouldn't have to know what a character encoding is! Their > software should just use UTF-8 automatically. Will users discard existing software, which supports legacy encogins, and existing data, which are in legacy encodings? I am not saying Unicode everywhere is bad. To the contrary, I think Unicode everywhere is better. But it is extremely unlikely. Cheers, -- MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
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