Re: [NTLK] [ANN] OPML support for IC/VC

Steven, that's a great article.
As it happens, however, the key to the appalling lack of success in
this area is quite easy to identify. It is spelled out very clearly
in a sentence right near the beginning:

The only characters that mattered were good old unaccented English letters,

This amazing (and arrogant) attitude displayed by the original
developers, together with their utter lack of foresight, is the
reason we have had (and still do have) so much trouble speaking in
tongues on the internet.

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>
>There is a fantastic article about all the history and madness of
>string encoding here, for anyone who wants to learn more about this:
>
> <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html>

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