Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) skribis:

> Sorry, I think it *should* be a (distant) second choice.  The assumption
> that all the world is UTF-8 is simply not valid, in my experience.  Both
> personally and with people I know.

I think it’s reasonable to expect the audience of the Standards,
typically people using the latest and greatest GNU/Linux, to be able to
deal with UTF-8 encoded files.

I think it’s also important to acknowledge and support a technical
evolution towards inclusion of non-English natives, and towards better
expressivity in general.

> If you disagree, feel free to write rms directly.  I would suggest only
> proposing the idea, not the actual text, or he could easily get diverted.

OK, I’ll see.

Ludo’.