Re: Unicode plain text

From: Pierre Lewis (lew@nortel.ca)
Date: Fri May 23 1997 - 19:46:00 EDT

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In message "Re: Unicode plain text",
'fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu' writes:

> And no, I don't think this brings us anywhere near any slippery slopes.
> Page breaks have been an integral part of plain text since the 1950s
> when we were programming IBM 409 Electric Accounting Machines by
> sticking little wires into plugboards.

I have to agree. Don't RFCs all come with FFs in them?

Pierre

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