2008/4/26 Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My native spoken language is American English. (Saying it that way > because lately I more typically interact with computers via the > keyboard using the C and Ruby and POSIX shell languages. :-) > > But I prefer UTF-8. Why? Because typeset English != US-ASCII. For > example in written English one may use left and right quotation marks. > These are not available in the us-ascii encoding. Additionally in the > English business world there is a high rate of occurrance of trademark > symbols and copyright symbols and other characters not present in > us-ascii. All of those work very well with UTF-8. > > As an English only speaker I get great benefit from UTF-8. >
+5 Informative Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
