OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Brian Mury wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 16:25 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>one could argue that japanese characters are not "plain text
>>messages".
> 
> 
> Sure they are, it's just a different character set:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP
>               ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> If you don't like the font that *your machine* uses for that character
> set, change it.

To paraphrase the author of that guideline...

Please use
	(a) common sense
	(b) the new list of guidelines

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MailinglistGuidelines

See rule 8...

> 8. Use the common language
> 
> Unless you are a Fedora mailing list that is dedicated to users
> speaking that particular language, communicate in English. Other
> languages might be ignored merely because the users in these lists might
> only know English or use it as their common language. Refer to
> Communicate for more information on other mailing lists.
> 

Mike
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