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Re: UTF-8 charset [OT] [message #180852 is a reply to message #180851] Thu, 21 March 2013 18:22 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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M. Strobel <sorry_no_mail_here(at)nowhere(dot)dee> wrote:

> Am 21.03.2013 15:31, schrieb Adrian Tuddenham:
>> M. Strobel <sorry_no_mail_here(at)nowhere(dot)dee> wrote:
>>
>>> Am 21.03.2013 00:13, schrieb The Cat in the Hat:
>>>> Christoph Becker <cmbecker69(at)gmx(dot)de> wrote in
>>>> news:kide60$df1$1(at)speranza(dot)aioe(dot)org:
>>>>
>>>> > The Cat in the Hat wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> How about omitting the smart quotes in your posts?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Come back after you've figured out how to configure your newsreader
>>>> >> properly.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thomas' message was properly encoded as UTF-8. Isn't that acceptable
>>>> > in this NG?
>>>>
>>>> Usenet was designed to use ASCII, not UTF-8. At best, it's poor
>>>> netiquette in *any* NG.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Utter nonsense.
>>
>> There are some computers that cannot read UTF-8. Always use the lowest
>> common denominator if you want to communicate effectively without
>> excluding anyone.
>>
>
> RFC 3977 Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) October 2006
> [Page 3]
> o the default character set is changed from US-ASCII [ANSI1986] to
> UTF-8 [RFC3629] (note that US-ASCII is a subset of UTF-8);
>
> I am so fed up with limited character sets like ISO-8859 or the Win encoding a
> programmer/sysadmin has to care about.

A lot depends on the readership you are aiming at. If you are writing
for just one person or a target audience who can all read your preferred
character set, there is no reason not to use it. If you are writing for
a larger audience and do not want to exclude some potential readers,
then you may have to limit your choice. If you are writing comercially,
you cannot afford to upset or alienate a single customer.

As a general rule, the larger the readership, the greater the
constraints which fall upon the writer. A lot of time and extra work
(and possibly frustration) on the part of one writer will save a much
greater amount of time wasted in total by hundreds of frustrated
readers.


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