[rfc-i] Use of unicode

[Joe Touch]

On 4/24/2012 11:58 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
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> I appreciate the efforts to tone down the imperialism, ...

FWIW,

were we having this discussion 200 years ago about diplomacy, it would 
have been in French

were we having this discussion 100 years ago in science, it would have 
been in German

Neither is the pure result of imperialism.

Although it will be useful to support other alphabets for various 
reasons, the IETF didn't create the use of "English as the common 
language". That's prevalent across sciences and engineering at least.

If you'd like to try to change *that*, please give it a try, and let us 
know when you gain traction. For the next 50 years, I suspect things 
will remain as they are - the use of a common language has many 
benefits, and the current one for engineering is English.

Joe