From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,699cc914522aa7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!ndsoftware.com!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Persson Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <_wrvh.30646$E02.12547@newsb.telia.net> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:48:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.96.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1170463689 83.250.96.174 (Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:48:09 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:48:09 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8858 Date: 2007-02-03T00:48:09+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > And what client on my VMS system would display those characters on my > VT102 (emulator) ? I don't know VMS. comp.os.vms might be a better place to ask about that. > It seems to me that people in newsgroups should stick to ASCII. So, you want the entire world to use the American Standard Code? I suppose we should all drop our un-American, nonstandard languages and only speak and write American Standard English, right? Maybe we should give up all un-American, nonstandard culture and watch nothing but American Standard Hollywood movies? Perhaps you also want all countries to join the Holy American Empire and let the American Standard President reign for ever and ever? Look, nobody is forcing you to use a MIME-aware newsreader. It may be that there is none that runs on VMS. In that case you have a choice: Use VMS and not see all characters right, or see the characters but not on VMS. Decide what's more important to you. I don't care what you choose, but I do take offence when you try to force an outdated and hopelessly insufficient standard on *me* just because *your* software is limited. Usenet is international. Deal with it. -- Björn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu