Gutenberg9443@aol.com writes:

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Can you supply a way to do this? If so, do it.

We can. XML, among other things, is a simple way to do this.

But all the same, I'd rather that readers have that version than no version at all of the book.

How many people can't read the Latin-1 version? How many people read that version when they could read the Latin-1 version just fine? People have sent back editions with the accents re-added despite the fact that we already had an edition with accents, so there is evidence that having both editions is bad.

The principle of the greatest good for the greatest number doesn't mean let's throw out the lesser numbers.

How dare we be so provincial as to ignore the EBCDIC users. There's thousands of character sets in the world--what gives us the right to ignore the "lesser numbers" of non-ASCII users? -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm