Re: Unicode and man/groff/less problems

[David Starner <dstarner98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:55:50PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> I was recently in contact with the initiator of project Gutenberg, and
> they are interested in updating their plaintext public domain literature
> format guidelines to UTF-8 and ISO 6429 SGR as soon as a few more
> editors to support entry comfortably are available.

Ack! Why on earth would Project Gutenberg use ISO 6429? If you want 
richtext, use HTML. It's easy to write, can be viewed on far more
platforms, and can be read as plain text without problems.

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