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Bug#99933: Default charset should be UTF-8



On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:29:51PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> I disagree with the idea that special symbols may only be used in 
> certain contexts.  That's like saying that HTML should only be used
> to describe the structure of a document and not its appearance --

Which is exactly correct.  It does not appear that Raul is willing to
discuss this issue rationally, therefore I will content myself with
opposing his position.

Hopefully the rest of the technical committee has greater respect for
thoughtfully-scoped, coherent and directed standards, and not phenomena
like Visual Basic, which was famously derided as being a language designed
by "focus group".

-- 
G. Branden Robinson             |    There's nothing an agnostic can't do
Debian GNU/Linux                |    if he doesn't know whether he believes
branden@debian.org              |    in it or not.
http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Graham Chapman

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