Lost in translation: font policy ambiguous regarding localization groups

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le vendredi 30 janvier 2009 à 14:17 -0800, Roozbeh Pournader a écrit :
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
> <nicolas.mailhot at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 30 janvier 2009 à 01:23 -0800, Roozbeh Pournader a écrit :
> >> and everybody just calls ASCII?
> >
> > Everybody just calls ASCII iso-8859-1 or even plain text in any
> > encoding. ASCII is meaningless as soon as you put everybody in the
> > equation.
> 
> You lost me there. Are you saying that people are usually careless
> about using character set names, or are you saying the term "ASCII" is
> ambiguous?

I'm saying ASCII has been abused so often by people with no deep
encoding knowledge it's effectively meaningless today. And anyway
Unicode is what people should focus on now.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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