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[Henry S. Thompson]

matthew patton via Cygwin writes:

> ...

> [something inflamatory] needs to be asked about the person/committee
> that came up with UTF8.

Please think twice before that kind of remark.  Unicode, and with it
UTF-8, was necessary to bring the internet in general, and the Web in
particular, into the lives of the billions of the ordinary people
whose native orthography is incompatible with ASCII.

Now if you had said something rude about punycode, I'd have to agree
with you :-).

ht
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