Is Unicode welcome yet on the list?

[Stefan Baums]

Dear List,

since all the major operating systems and email clients have come to
support Unicode by now (even though it might require some
configuration), I was wondering whether its use for sending email
messages with proper diacritics (instead of Harvard-Kyoto
"transliteration") might be welcome on this list, or in other words,
how many of the participants do not yet use software supporting it.
As a test, here's the half-"sloka of my last post in proper Unicode
encoding:

   nāsty udyamasamo bandhuḥ kurvāṇo nāvasīdati

I realise that this is a touchy subject, and that some out there even
still continue to write "ae oe ue" for the German umlauts etc., so
please be gentle...

Kind regards,
Stefan Baums

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Stefan Baums
Asien-Instituttet
Københavns Universitet