From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon May 07 2007 - 20:30:08 CDT
Asmus Freytag <asmusf at ix dot netcom dot com> wrote:
> I'm also convinced that this character is in danger of becoming the
> most-studied single character proposal, which is especially ironic in
> the light of the 4000-odd CJK extension C characters that may contain
> dozens, nay hundreds of characters with less-certain origin and
> future, but that excite barely a comment.
If nothing else, it is definitely the proposal that has generated the
most e-mails in a hodgepodge of UTF-8 and ISO 8859-1 and
who-knows-what-else, so that somewhere between the Unicode mail server
and my copy of Outlook Express, at least half of the messages reaching
my mailbox have had a sharp-s corrupted somewhere, in either the Subject
field or the body. Kind of a brutal reminder how far we still are from
character set uniformity.
-- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages
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