"Steve Welsh" <nobody@linux.bogus> wrote in message news:j-
GdnZOEzqG3qs3enZ2dnUVZ8qSdnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk...
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:55:33 +0100

> BillW50 wrote:
> > In June 2004, the ISO/IEC working group responsible for
> > maintaining eight-bit coded character sets disbanded and ceased
> > all maintenance of ISO 8859, including ISO 8859-1, in order to
> > concentrate on the Universal Character Set and Unicode. In
> > computing applications, encodings that provide full UCS support
> > (such as UTF-8 and UTF-16) are finding increasing favor over
> > encodings based on ISO 8859-1.
>
> You obviously totally fail to realise that 7-bit ASCII and Extended
> ASCII (aka ISO 8859-1) are, and will continue to be recognised
> subsets of UFT-8 and UTF-16. If you don't realise this, then you
> obviously have no clue as to what Unicode is all about, or how it
> works.

Actually Steve, all email and I believe including newsgroup messages has
to be compatible with US-ASCII during transport. This doesn't mean that
it has to be readable as English text, but all characters have to be
printable as ASCII (7-bit) compatible characters.

What MIME does is when sending, may get converted (encoded) to ASCII.
This is to insure that dino systems out there won't get confused with
coming across non-ASCII characters. And when it is received, MIME tells
the system what character set it is encoded with so it can correctly
decode it back.

> > I use HTML email when I need to use tables, bullets, newsletters,
> > pictures, etc. It's all part of the MIME standard. Nothing wrong
> > with that. Plain text is about 50 years old now.
>
> But you seriously misunderstand that presentation and content
> _should_ and _must_ be separated - that is precisely why we are in
> the M$ induced horror of ActiveX, etc, etc.......

Don't like ActiveX? Turn it off, no big deal. And I never ran across a
bad ActiveX Control that didn't ask to be installed first. It's no big
deal of any threat that I can see.

> > It is time for some to quit hanging on to the old past. It is
> > time some people actually start using all of that computing power
>
> It has fuck all to do with computing power!! My Linux server is a P-
> II 350 - it does its job - it sits there and *serves*

I'm using an Intel Celeron(R) 400MHz under Windows 2000. Which hardware-
wise is probably slower than your Linux machine. And this machine under
Windows 2000 also does the job as well. I have another laptop which is
the same model, but with Windows 98SE installed. It also does great as
well. Both have the max 192MB of RAM installed. Btw, from your header, I
see you're on a Windows machine right now.

> > Since the bad guys always finds loopholes in the law, I believe you
> > should blame the lawmakers IMHO. As I feel they are failing us
> > *all*. Blame the cause and not the symptoms.
>
> OK - I can go with that one! Perhaps we need to start with the US &
> GB governments who are happy to promulgate illegal wars.
>
> > And there is nothing wrong with Microsoft products per se.
>
> In the words of JM `You cannot be serious'

Dead serious! There are millions of machines running just fine with
Microsoft products installed. Including my own. Yes, some people have
trouble with them. But those same people generally blame the wrong cause
to their problems anyway from my experiences.

> > Bill (using a Toshiba 2595XDVD under Windows 2000)
> > -- written and edited within WordStar 5.0
>
> OK, well I see you are not toally beyond redemption then, Bill ;)

I'm using Word 2000 this time to edit this reply. I guess to you I just
sank a few notches, eh?

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Bill (using a Toshiba 2595XDVD & Windows 2000)
-- written and edited within Word 2000