> From: Andy Kunz > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Re: Mail formatting > Date: Tuesday, 1 July 1997 21:53 > > >languages with non-ASCII glyphs, like umlauts and accents. Whither Unicode? > > So downloads can take twice as long... Two times is not a problem, unless you're getting mail in the 100's of k's volume. The PICLIST volume takes less than a minute. 2 x would be less than 2 minutes. It's like UI response times. If a screen redraws in 2mS instead of 1mS, who really cares? (apart from benchmark programs) MikeS