On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:45:54AM +0100, Cormac Lawler wrote:
On 4/18/05, Chad Perrin perrin@apotheon.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:41:58PM +0200, Anthere wrote:
When I say the majority, I was referring to those discussing the topic on quarto list. Cormac, could you sent a sample of the last version of the mail so that Chad can understand what I mean by "best to use html" ?
Is the group of people discussing it on the quarto list the sum total of people who will receive this email of which you speak?
The email is proposed to be distributed on the newly-created foundation-news-l mailing list, specifically set up for this purpose (and possibly other announcements though this hasn't been fully discussed). We've also thought about using it as a multilingual press release.
On multilinguality, is it any easier to display a multilingual message in a plain text email? Or does this require the html solution? (This is why html was proposed in the first place.)
short answer: Yes.
slightly longer answer: The language for which a given computer is set up is the language in which that computer is going to be most easily able to render text. Thus, if you happen to be using an Arabic-language version of a given OS, it will display text as Arabic where that is the language in which the text is sent. Unicode, after all, wasn't just designed for the Web.
Now, granted, there are some languages that might suffer limitations in this area, but they'll tend to suffer the same limitations with displaying text in HTML as well. After all, text is text: text in HTML uses the same mechanism as text outside of HTML, unless the text is actually rendered as a static image, which is another ball of wax entirely.
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