Re: ISO 8859-16 is a national security threat :)

[Martin Duerst <duerst@xxxxxx>]

The security stuff is clearly overblown. The other arguments
before, about actual mixed use in books and newspapers, are
much more serious.

Regards, Martin.

At 15:48 01/08/31 +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> I was delighted to read in
>
>   ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 3/N 441
>   http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG3/docs/n441.pdf
>
> how ISO 8859-16 is officially considered by the Kingdom of the
> Netherlands a threat to their national security. (Though it makes we
> worry whether the Dutch secret police is now after me, having made
> available tools for generating X11 fonts for that encoding with the
> subversive COMMA BELOW characters. Implementors beware.)
>
> Markus
>
> --
> Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
> Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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