On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:49:12AM -0700, Jon Babcock wrote:

> One of the the most successful mailing lists that I belong to is 'honyaku',
> for JE/EJ commercial translators. One reason for its success is that, from
> the start, it asked members to use only iso-2022-jp for encoding Japanese.

But this being an English list, it's not that big a problem (I don't think
anyone is going to be throwing EBCDIC around here.) It's easier for us to
deal with a reasonable variety of character sets - most of us have recode
or some similar tool, don't we? - than to munge our mail readers for
one small mailing list.

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If you wish to strive for peace of soul then believe;
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