From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   DanS wrote:   
   > Aragorn   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   Oh; wait; I see.   
      
   DanS is XNews.   
      
   > Xnews does not support UTF-8 (or any other character set encoding),   
   > making it difficult or even impossible to use for reading or posting   
   > articles in languages other than English.   
      
   So, maybe he is 'sensitive' to what Aragorn posted here w/ a number of   
   wonky char/s which required his Claws msg to be 'characterized' by UTF-8   
   and quoted-printable.   
      
   But, I don't consider UTF-8 to be 'non-American' so maybe DanS is   
   calling out Aragorn for the words that implied that maybe Americans (and   
   the use [by some of them] of antiquated encoding or charsets) weren't   
   'modern' enough.   
      
   I'm flopping around trying to find the 'offense' here :-)   
      
      
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   Mike Easter   
      
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