From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 1/1/23 06:37, Bud Frede wrote:   
   > Aragorn  writes:   
   >   
   >> On 26.12.2022 at 22:01, DanS scribbled:   
   >>   
   >>> Aragorn  wrote in   
   >>> news:20221220174017.1c088c34@nx-74205:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 20.12.2022 at 08:17, 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 consider aligning myself with something the whole world has   
   >> agreed upon, accepted and adopted more than two decades ago as   
   >> any kind of elitism. As the matter of fact, I'd say that refusing to   
   >> adopt such globally accepted standards out of a misplaced sense of   
   >> nationalism would be a lot closer to elitism.  And arrogance.   
   >   
   > I'm a USAian, and I don't have any problem with UTF-8.   
   >   
   > (I don't like the term "American," because it assumes that only the US   
   > is important out of all the countries in the Americas.)   
      
   	I can only agree.  I live in the USA, a country but North and South   
   America are full of other nations. And the USA is a collection of   
   ill-suited allied states.  All of us on two continents are Americans   
   even if not citizens of the USA.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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