jon said:
But I believe it is also essential to preserve all accented Latin and non-accented characters found in *all* books.
once again, the minutiae is being brought to the surface. why doesn't anyone here respond to the main message? because you have no response, that's why. the main point doesn't correspond to your petty-politics of throwing mud at michael, so y'all continue to try to shift the emphasis.
But I believe it is also essential to preserve all accented Latin and non-accented characters found in *all* books.
we know that's what you believe, jon. you've said it over and over and over. and i have said, over and over and over, that _i_ believe it is _not_ essential, not in *all* books. so there we have it. i will do things my way, and i expect that you will do things your way. fine! let's leave the other people here alone! as usual, you look only at the _benefits_, without factoring _costs_ into the equation. the _cost_ of including high-bit characters is the e-text then _breaks_ for some users, ones who are using viewer-programs that are not encoding-savvy, or who don't have all of the correct fonts on their computer. or other reasons i haven't come across yet. if the unicode people had done their job right, and made unicode follow the mac philosophy -- "it just works" -- i would be up there on the unicode bandwagon with you and your friends. but it doesn't "just work", not for everyone -- not yet -- and until it does, i don't want to talk about it. and _after_ it does, i don't want to talk about it _then_, either, i just wanna use it and have it work. for everyone. wanna do something useful? _make_it_work_! not just on the new machines, with certain browsers and not any other viewer-programs -- on _every_ machine, with _every_ program. but until then, just stop bugging all of us about it. we've heard it, too often, and we are unconvinced. and buddy, you are _not_ going to convince us by repeating the same old argument _again_, or by asserting your beliefs again and again... with all the time i've wasted discussing this stupid topic for the 829th time, i could have cleaned up the rest of that "my antonia" text. go away. oh never mind, i will... -bowerbird