>From: "Alain" <alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca>
>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 05:00:50 -0700 (PDT)
>
>>Like Ken and some others, I think it's pretty cool that the
>>UTF-8 text could be shipped through different types of systems
>>using different editors without destroying its contents.
>>
>>-----------------------
>>Sandra Martin O'Donnell
>>odonnell@zk3.dec.com
>
>
>Yes, when information is not filtered out and transfered intact, there is
>always hope that it can be read while one upgrades to a better viewing
>system at least (or processed correctly at another level, while the
>information is transformed without loss). If at least this data integrity
>feature could have been true before in all systems this would have solved=
> a
>lot of my problems with characters.
>
>I also think that this feature is great!
>
>Alain LaBonté
>Québec
>
With an admitted slight bias, I think that it is a pretty cool great
feature!
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