[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:

> I agree more or less if we are talking about "special characters".
> I don't understand why people encode 7-bit US ASCII.

I don't think "people" are encoding anything.

I'd guess that if there is some single character that is
outside this old "7-bit US-ASCII" character table (such
as if I write my own name as it should be written, which
is part om the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) table), the whole post
becomes "quoted printable" and in that case even some other
"7-bit US ASCII" are hit by this "encoding" just becuse
that is how quited-printable works.

Anyway, trying to use tools that doesn't work in todays
IT environment just falls back on oneself. Such as trying
to always use VMS based tools. That might be of some fun
but do not expect everyone else to adapt their routines
just becuse of some die-hards that can't learn.

It would be enough to see the "US" part of "US ASCII" to
understand that we today lives in a world that is slightly
larger then the "US"...

Common, we are soon to enter 2010 and to still have this
"7-bit ASCII" discussion is just silly...