From: frede@mouse-potato.com   
      
   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.)   
      
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