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Message from discussion Posting Unicode (est. 1988) is not "Kooky".
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Ivan Shmakov  
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 More options Oct 30 2012, 12:45 am
Newsgroups: alt.free.newsservers, alt.usenet.kooks
From: Ivan Shmakov <oneing...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:45:53 +0700
Local: Tues, Oct 30 2012 12:45 am
Subject: Re: Posting Unicode (est. 1988) is not "Kooky".
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>>>>> Michael Moroney <moro...@world.std.spaamtrap.com> writes:
>>>>> Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> writes:

 >> Posting Unicode (est. 1988) is not "Kooky".

 > Obsessing over it is.

 > As is obsessing over whether someone else's newsreader lacks a rather
 > useless feature.

        Huh?  Something like 75% of all the world population use writing
        systems that cannot be mapped to "pure" ASCII.

        So, the choice is between a whole bunch of various "national"
        encodings on the one side, and a single one on the other.

        For sure, I vote for simplicity.

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