Thank you, Seshat, for handling this issue in a very "moderate" and
fair way.

If all character sets are deemed acceptable on Qalam, I would still
like to suggest that they be tagged appropriately, either in-band or
out-of-band. Otherwise it might be difficult to figure out what is
intended.

(I wonder which "other encoding" was supported by the one-person
minority....)

-Doug Ewell doug_ewell@... or dewell@...


______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: FWD: Poll results for qalam
Author: <qalam@egroups.com> at Internet
Date: 2000-11-07 13:28


Good day.

For your information, here is the result of the poll about the Qalam's
character set.

As only 11 members out of 47 expressed their opinion, I would say that the
group is generally not very much worried by this issue,

Moreover, there is parity between members who opted for a "freedom of
encoding" and those who chose UTF-8. (There is also a one-person minority
who chose "another encoding").

So, it seems that the decision is bouncing back to the moderator... And this
is the moderator's decision:

On the Qalam home page, I will explicitly state that any character set is
accepted for posting on this mailing list.

I will also add that UTF-8 has been suggested as a very suitable character
set for this kind of mailing list.

I would like to support these statements with links to pages explaining how
to use UTF-8 or other character sets in e-mail. Suggestions are highly
appreciated!

Regards.
Seshat (Qalam moderator)