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to: KAI RICHTER
from: BENNY PEDERSEN
date: 2020-10-06 14:07:00
subject: Slackware 15.0

Hello Kai!

05 Oct 2020 17:03, Kai Richter wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 KR> Guys, what kind of problem are you talking about??

none

if its all 7 bit there is just diffrent parsing of 7 bit

 KR> If you code all humans writing symbols to HTML you will have the same 
 KR> situation like now.

so you know json ?

 KR> HTML will need multiple bytes to define a symbol.

same as unicode when its 8 bit charters 
 
 KR> No matter if the HTML charset will be limited to 7 bit or not,

?, i have seen UTF-8 and QP combined badly in lots of emails where programmers
dont understand double encodeing problems, QP hide 8 bit chatters, so UTF-8
dont know it needs to be unicode encoded, thats not how it should be, since the
reader does not know if sender send from what charset :/

 KR> the software must know which symbol have to be displayed for that 
 KR> multibyte sequence.

and unicode solve that much better then html, hmm


 Regards Benny

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