Re: Metaquestion on this group

["Alain FONTAINE (Post master - UCL)" <fontaine@sri.ucl.ac.be>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 1994 22:03:49 +0900 (JST) you said:
>What?  Do you mean that the following is not a `plain text'?
>
>        German word "Guten Tag" means "Hello".

Since there were no MIME headers in the mail (at least when I got it), it is
certainly plain text. Now, the matter discussed was text in more than one
language:
- Of course, text in more than one language has indeed been produced.
- I have been able to read it, and this is probably the case for most
  people who can read both english and german.
- But some very picky german people could argue that either:
    - the german part was culturally incorrect, and offensive to them;
    - the german part was barely readable;
    - they did not even recognize that there were some german words in
      the text
  because the german words were not presented to them in some 'Fraktur'
  font.
                                                                /AF