- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:31:53 +0900
- To: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>, i18n@xfree86.org
- Cc: linux-utf8@nl.linux.org, ietf-charsets@iana.org
The security stuff is clearly overblown. The other arguments before, about actual mixed use in books and newspapers, are much more serious. Regards, Martin. At 15:48 01/08/31 +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote: >I was delighted to read in > > ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 3/N 441 > http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG3/docs/n441.pdf > >how ISO 8859-16 is officially considered by the Kingdom of the >Netherlands a threat to their national security. (Though it makes we >worry whether the Dutch secret police is now after me, having made >available tools for generating X11 fonts for that encoding with the >subversive COMMA BELOW characters. Implementors beware.) > >Markus > >-- >Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK >Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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