- From: Tex Texin <texin@progress.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:52:32 -0400
- To: Thierry Sourbier <webmaster@i18ngurus.com>
- CC: www-international@w3.org
Quoting John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> and Andrew Cunningham. > >as somebody trying to run a site in 15 languages (and growing)...it > >is my fervent hope that whatever evolves will stick to a single > >globally applied standard...I don't care who provides it...I would > >like to be able to know that a single form of character encoding > >will work for any language AND will be able to be read by all users > >with their standard set up Thierry Sourbier wrote: > Unicode is a part of the solution not the problem. Absolutely! Right now, I would be happy if most browsers and servers labeled their http messages with charset, so I could properly ascertain their content. It's a mess today and is creating problems for the future since the data will live on... If everything were Unicode I wouldn't have this worry. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin Director, International Business mailto:Texin@Progress.com Tel: +1-781-280-4271 the Progress Company Fax: +1-781-280-4655 -------------------------------------------------------------
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