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On Monday 23 February 2004 00.35, Norman Diamond wrote: > Of course. Perhaps my use of reductio al absurdum was unclear. I was > trying to show that UTF-8, despite its sanity, is not universally agreeable. > The actual reason is because it came late to the scene (around 20 years ago) > and it is not backwards compatible. Even later, it's from 1992 I believe and a standard even later. That is long after we went from national variants of ASCII to ISO-Latin-1. If I recall it correctly it was the years around 1987 that we started having multiple encodings fo text. -- robin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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