[Cialug] Linux Work - Debian

[Dave Weis]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> On Monday November 17 2008 12:36, Josh More wrote:
>> This whole 8bit text thing should never have been allowed through.
>> 7bit email was fine when I started, it should be fine now.  *grumble
>> grumble grumble*.  :)
> Or we should have just started out with 8-bit to begin with.  :)
> Writing authentic Japanese (as opposed to the rÿÿmaji bastardization) to
> my fiancée in us-ascii would be non-trivial. I'm sure other people can
> think of other reasons for needing 8-bit, that's just the one that
> comes to mind first for me.

I'm not sure what will show up on anyone else's screen but I laughed that 
a character set complaint had a mangled letter in fiance :-)

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