Nikolay Vladimirov <nikolay(a)vladimiroff.com> wrote:
2008/12/16 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot(a)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.
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