At 02:43 1999-06-08 -0700, you wrote:
>Yung-Fong Tang wrote on 1999-06-07 21:58 UTC:
>
>I believe that the only ISO 8859 parts that were ever widely used are
>1,2,5,7,8. Support for all the rest may safely be dumped and offering
>UTF-8 instead means to really satisfying user needs.
>
>Markus
>
This is even offensive. ISO 8859-3 is widely used in the Esperanto
community. It is a minority, yes, but ¿a standard to be dumped?
Let it serve as example, one can currently write in Esperanto in ISO 8859-3
"only" acquiring the apropiate fonts and configuring his/her keyboard.
For many people this is a complex task. The jump to UTF-8, out of current
only-8-bits-software, adds a lot of complexity more, a very difficult jump
that cannot be done _already_ by the general public. It's not so easy.
Ricardo Bermell-Benet
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