Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() address@hidden (Karl Berry)
() Sun, 6 Jul 2014 23:50:50 GMT

       Inserting the Copyright sign is not IMO a good reason

   Right, definitely not.

I think the best reason is because Authors of Free Software would
like to see their names represented more or less "naturally", and
nature has shown us a consolidation to UTF-8 (after the flowering
of code pages and character sets, etc., which are also natural in
their time).

The benefits of Free Software have the greatest impact for people
who transition from user to programmer, i.e., future programmers.
If GNU aligns w/ the future, it has a better chance of successful
uptake.  True, narcisism is not the most beautiful lever to pull,
but doing so in this case combines both realism and idealism, and
so is a good hack at the right time (squinting 99 years hence).

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