[Gimp-user] Using the mailing lists as a forum

[Richard H.]

>what kind of etiquette? 

http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html
See "List Etiquette", "Use the 7-bit ASCII character set."

>We should be using utf-8 nowadays. People like to have their own
names and 
>aanmes of places, software, etc... written in full. 
>HTML is plain stupid.  But utf-8 is not to be stuck in the 70's, and
would 
>show a little respect with "the rest of the World".

Basically, I agree. I made the Web interface so that all kinds of
character sets can be read and interpreted, but only US-ASCII is sent,
just as in "be tolerant in what you receive and be strict in what you
send".

-- 
Richard H.