Re: [tlug] Japanese Encoding - which one?

[Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com>]

Ian Wells wrote:

> On 11/25/05, *Brett Robson* <b-robson@example.com 
> <mailto:b-robson@example.com??>> wrote:
>
>     Stephen, while I agree with many of your points, in criticising me and
>     what I've written you are letting your evangelical zeal get the better
>     of you. We can argue about the semantics of "should" and "breach" in
>     relation to standards but it's moot as I qualified this, a point you
>     have continually ignored in your rush to lecture me.
>
>
> Stephen's not lecturing you.  He's not telling you you must use UTF-8; 
> he's not saying that you're violating RFCs; and he's not saying that 
> violating RFCs is a crime.


Telling me what I should be doing at work is exactly that.

> He's telling you that your original statement (as quoted here) was wrong:
>
> >     Brett> [...] Using UTF for for Japanese email
> >     Brett> breaches RFCs, you are supposed to use 2022-JP.
>
> In contradiction to your unqualified statement above, it *doesn't* 
> breach RFCs.



The reason it is "unqualified" is because you have dishonestly quoted me.