[rescue] Corrupted list messages
Peter Corlett
abuse at cabal.org.uk
Fri Oct 1 02:14:59 CDT 2021
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 04:36:12PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
[...]
> In this day and age, saying "Only USASCII has any place on the Internet"
> (or even just "in email") is tantamount to saying, "If your first language
> is anything but English, sod off, we don't want you around here."
Note the "US" in "US-ASCII". It omits characters used elsewhere in the
Anglosphere. In particular, the pound sign, the euro sign, occasional
diaereses, and loanwords.
So this is just good old American exceptionalism.
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