Tim Bray <tbray at textuality dot com> wrote:
Right now ascii text is probably the most widely-supported display >> format.>> - ASCII is not usable for the languages of a large majority of the > world's population.
I suspect Melinda meant to say "plain text," and wasn't intending to mix up the "ASCII vs. Unicode" debate with the "plain vs. formatted text" debate. I predict people will continue to combine the character-encoding issue, the formatted-text issue, the pretty-pictures issue, and the document-creation issue into one big amorphous blob, significantly extending the length of time it will take to agree upon and solve any of these problems. --Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14http://www.ewellic.orghttp://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.htmlhttp://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ _______________________________________________Ietf mailing listIetf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf