Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Nikolai.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:22:58PM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Oleh Krehel <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Honestly, it's very weird to see "It’s" written by you, when I'm used to
> > seeing "It's" in all electronic media (which accounts for 100% of my
> > English usage).

> As you yourself point out, this is due to you being a person who’s
> only used English in a medium that for very long was severely limited
> in expressive power (ASCII and ISO-8859-5?).

ASCII and ISO-8859-1 are not even slightly limited in expressive power.
Anything you can say in English can be expressed efficiently in these
character sets.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).