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Re: Thoughts on the draft



At 06:38 PM 9/4/96 -0700, PALAMBER.US.ORACLE.COM wrote:
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>> >I've met people who want to work in nothing but ASCII.  I've met others who 
>> >want to work in nothing but binary. 
>> > 
>> >Opinions on how to proceed? 
> 
>One possibility is to mandate ASCII and support optional "display names".  

We chose UTF-8 rather than ASCII to accomodate other languages, so I don't see a need for "display names".  Could you elaborate on that, if I'm missing something?

I've been using "ASCII" to refer to UTF-8 out of a bad, old habit.  Sorry.

 - Carl
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At 06:38 PM 9/4/96 -0700, PALAMBER.US.ORACLE.COM wrote:
> 
> 
>> >I've met people who want to work in nothing but ASCII.  I've met others who 
>> >want to work in nothing but binary. 
>> > 
>> >Opinions on how to proceed? 
> 
>One possibility is to mandate ASCII and support optional "display names".  

We chose UTF-8 rather than ASCII to accomodate other languages, so I don't
see a need for "display names".  Could you elaborate on that, if I'm missing
something?

I've been using "ASCII" to refer to UTF-8 out of a bad, old habit.  Sorry.

 - Carl

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