> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:54:27AM +0200, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote: >>>So my non-ASCII characters look incorrect in your MUA because you're >>>stuck in an insane locale? Too bad. That pain is self-inflicted. >> >> Don't blame me, I'm not the one who created all those funky European >> accented >> characters, etc. > >All these 'funky' characters predate to the first english written text. >You are not the center of the world, and ASCII has a lot of signs that >are not used by other languages: $, #, @, ', ", &. Almost of them are >english centrics. > >> Really within the English language, there's really only a need for 128 >> characters. All other (European) characters tend to only be seen within >> International communications. Most within the US have no need for the >> European >> characters, etc. > >Yes, but there are billons of persons of comunicating in these >other languages, in fact the majority of the population of >the world.
You're not completely understanding what has been stated here. I'd suggest re-reading the thread. -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
