Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:17:29 -0700 | From | Mike Touloumtzis <> | Subject | Re: Japanese (or other language) postings |
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:05:00PM +1000, Andrew van der Stock wrote: > > If you can't read the following, your mailer (MUA) is broken. End of story. >
I believe others have already addressed the silliness of arguing against a common language on an international mailing list, so I will merely point out that, in fact, your mailer is broken in that it sends long text/plain lines without the "format=flowed" parameter.
RFC 2646 discusses this problem of "embarrassing line wrap":
1. Abstract
Interoperability problems have been observed with erroneous labelling of paragraph text as Text/Plain, and with various forms of "embarrassing line wrap." (See section 3.)
Attempts to deploy new media types, such as Text/Enriched [RICH] and Text/HTML [HTML] have suffered from a lack of backwards compatibility and an often hostile user reaction at the receiving end.
My point is that interoperability and I18N are complex subjects, and accusing those who desire a monolingual lkml of "racism" should not be done without more forethought and attention to the problem than you have apparently put into it. You are free to start linux-kernel-babel if you disagree :-).
miket
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