From: Arlie Stephens
Message: 2723
Date: 2003-02-21
>Some of your posts arrive as illegible gooblety gook on my linux system.
> I've been informed that others may have difficulty reading my posts because
> I've been using UTF-8 encoding. Is this true?
> I don't do Windoze so I really don't understand why people would would not beI have no idea what I would need to do to understand UTF-8. Given the number
> using, or atleast be able to use UTF-8, and switch between these encodings as
> required.
> I'm able to read everything on the list except for my own posts when they areWhy is UTF-8 better than whatever I'm getting by default? (One of the ISO
> quoted back to me by a person not using UTF-8. For me, the idea of not using
> UTF-8 is dangerous. If I stick to UTF-8, I don't need to make special
> accomodations when I write code such as XML processing programs. I have lost
> weeks of valuable time fighting character encoding problems.
> Are there other people who feel as strongly about this issue as I do? Is it--
> the consensus of the participants on this list that we should use
> ISO-8859-1(5)? This will be difficult for me to accomplish, but If I must,
> so be it.