From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   DanS wrote:   
   > Aragorn wrote:   
   >> Mike Easter scribbled:   
   >>> Mike Easter wrote:   
   >>>> Aha.  Claws default is 7bit ascii; if you put in an   
   >>>> em-dash, it is going to have to deal w/ that somehow.   
   >>>   
   >>> Actually claws default charset is 'auto' which it uses   
   >>> ascii unless it needs something else, which alternately   
   >>> could be utf-8 but utf-8 won't do an em-dash w/o 'extras'   
   >>> so it uses q-p.   
   >>   
   >> I use UTF-8 everywhere.  It's the 21st century, after all,   
   >> and I'm not an American. :p   
   >   
   > I don't know how the 'Americans' here don't call you out on your elitism. I   
   don't know if it's   
   > the European in you, or your issues, probably a combination, but...   
   >   
   > ...joking or not...it's uncalled for.   
   >   
   I didn't interpret Aragon's remark as 'anti-American'.   
      
   I interpreted it as referring to the 'fact' (or situation) that many   
   agents 'choose' so-called 'us-ascii' whereas modernization has brought   
   us to UTF-8 with which it is backward compatible, whereas some other   
   'modernizations' went ISO 8859-1 or ISO Latin 1 as opposed to other 8bit   
   ISOs such as ISO8859-2 for eastern euro or iso8859-5 for such as   
   cyrrilic or maybe something mcrosoftie like CP1252 superset of iso8859-1.   
      
   That is, I consider utf-8 to be the most 'global' 8bit, not some of   
   those others, and I don't consider it to be American or anti-American,   
   whereas some of those others are more 'regional'.   
      
      
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   Mike Easter   
      
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