Re: Netscape's Marc Andreessen on Unicode + the Web from Gavin Nicol on 1997-01-24 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 1997)

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:20:18 -0500
To: misha.wolf@reuters.com
Cc: unicore@unicode.org, unicode@unicode.org, iso10646@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu, www-international@w3.org, www-html@w3.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, search@mccmedia.com
Message-Id: <199701241320.IAA08269@nathaniel.ebt>

Interesting... especially as one of the Netscape folk said something
akin to

  "I don't read Russion, I don't care about Russian and I don't want
   to support it in my browser."

Seems like we are moving to UNICODE as the lingua franca after all.
That is a good thing.

Received on Friday, 24 January 1997 11:12:14 UTC