Re: Zip vs. Non Zipped and ISO 15924 draft fixes

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Doug Ewell scripsit:
> John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth dot com> wrote:
>
> > Consequently, random pages that happen to be in non-Unicode charsets
> > are getting mis-served and mis-displayed. The site will probably
> > revert to having no default as a result, which is a great pity.
>
> I'm sure this is a dumb question, but why would there be any pages in
> non-Unicode charsets on the Unicode Web site?

History, I guess. I've pointed out the existence of "recode", but Her
Divine Effulgency seems unwilling to alter historical documents even if
just at the byte level.

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