Nikolay Vladimirov nikolay@vladimiroff.com wrote:
2008/12/16 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net:
Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 19:32 +0200, Muayyad AlSadi a écrit :
Currently, I'm opposed to having a Guideline that mandates UTF-8 over ASCII.
+1
please just "" or '' the use of UTF-8 fancy quotations should be done by the renderer
No it should not. This is the road to incompatible software and piles of quirks (as in, everyone just has to edit text in Microsoft word because input and rendering logic has been implemented there instead of a generic standard encoding level)
Currently, I'm opposed to having a Guideline that mandates UTF-8 over ASCII.
+1
It's not piles of quirks it's a simple parser. Take wiki syntax for example. All wikis(i know) rely on simple syntax that uses ASCII characters to display somewhat structured and formatted content.
I know three (moin-moin, twiki, and trac), and they use very different syntaxes, with wildly different ranges of features. /That/ is the kind of problem being hinted at above.