"Martin J. Duerst" wrote on 1997-07-15 10:02 UTC:
> USENET is 8-bit clean, and this includes C1. Big-5 (traditional Chinese)
> runs nicely on Usenet and contains C1. For newsgroups that want to use
> Unicode, UTF-8 is certainly a better choice, because all the rest of
> the Internet is moving towards UTF-8 (see RFC 2130).
And today, 8-bit encodings work even for email very well.
The RFC 2130 <http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc2130.txt> that you mentioned
makes me quite optimistic that at least some people have understood where
the way is going:
The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop
held 29 February - 1 March, 1996
[...]
This report recommends the use of ISO 10646 as the default Coded
Character Set, and UTF-8 as the default Character Encoding Scheme in
the creation of new protocols or new version of old protocols which
transmit text. These defaults do not deprecate the use of other
character sets when and where they are needed; they are simply
intended to provide guidance and a specification for
interoperability.
Markus
-- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Science grad student, Purdue University, Indiana, USA -- email: kuhn@cs.purdue.edu
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