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FromRobin Rosenberg <>
SubjectRe: UTF-8 filenames
DateMon, 23 Feb 2004 07:10:12 +0100
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
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