universality of Latin-1

[Erik M. van der Poel]

I'm directing followups to comp.std.internat.


John Gilmore writes:
> And my windows all use ISO Latin 1.  If Torbj|rn would send the
> umlauted letter in that standardized character set, it would look right
> in both the States and in Sweden.

Have you ever tried to send yourself a message in Latin-1? Did it
work? And even if *you* have a reasonable version of sendmail (one
that doesn't strip the 8th bit), what makes you so certain that
Torbj|rn's message and anyone else's won't pass through a site that
*does* strip the 8th bit?

Also, what's so "standardized" about ISO Latin-1? What makes it more
standard than, say, Latin-2?
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Erik M. van der Poel                                      erik at sra.co.jp
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