Nikolay Vladimirov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2008/12/16 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 19:32 +0200, Muayyad AlSadi a écrit : > >> > Currently, I'm opposed to having a Guideline that mandates UTF-8 over ASCII. > >> +1 > >> > >> please just "" or '' > >> the use of UTF-8 fancy quotations should be done by the renderer > > > > No it should not. This is the road to incompatible software and piles of > > quirks (as in, everyone just has to edit text in Microsoft word because > > input and rendering logic has been implemented there instead of a > > generic standard encoding level) > > >> > Currently, I'm opposed to having a Guideline that mandates UTF-8 over ASCII. > +1 > > It's not piles of quirks it's a simple parser. > Take wiki syntax for example. All wikis(i know) rely on simple syntax > that uses ASCII characters to display somewhat structured and > formatted content. I know three (moin-moin, twiki, and trac), and they use very different syntaxes, with wildly different ranges of features. /That/ is the kind of problem being hinted at above. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
