On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:11:20PM +0100, Jean-Jacques Puig wrote: > Agree. Another point is that many firms print contact / support / sales > mail addresses on documents. So may also individuals in some > circumstances (teachers on the hard copy of their teaching doc, > classified advertisements on newspapers, etc.). But this is an issue only in this are "cross contacts" to non local partners. Local partners have the same charset coding so this would not be a problem at all. > naturally: people who feel concerned about being reachable by anyone > abroad would create/buy/ask-their-admin-for a ascii address, while > others would get locale encoded addresses for a local use. A kind of a > social consensus. And the "default ASCII coding" may change to a "default chinese coding" in some years ;-) \Maex -- SpaceNet AG | Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Fon: +49 (89) 32356-0 Research & Development | D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 "The security, stability and reliability of a computer system is reciprocally proportional to the amount of vacuity between the ears of the admin"