Hi Steven!

I'm a total computer nerd so haven't understood most of the recent posts. I
use Windows 98 (ha! only recently upgraded from 95!!!) and Outlook Express
and have no problems with your posts. (But if I did, I wouldn't know where
to begin to unravel them and would probably just delete them unread - sorry
but that's what ignorance does for you!)

Cheers,
Sarah.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@...>
To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 3:21 PM
Subject: [norse_course] UTF-8 vs. ISO-8859-1(5) ?


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
be
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
are
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.
--
STH
Hatton's Law: There is only One inviolable Law.

Sumir hafa kv i...
...arir spakm li.

- Keth

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