Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:05:25 +0200 | From | "Martin v. Löwis" <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Did you miss the point? There has been a standard for marking for *30 > years*, and virtually NOONE (outside Japan) uses it.
I understood that fact - but I fail to see the point. If you mean to imply "people did not use ISO-2022, therefore, they will never use encoding declarations", I think this implication is false. People do use encoding declarations.
If you mean to imply "people did not use ISO-2022, therefore, they will never use the UTF-8 signature", I think this implications is also false. People do use the UTF-8 signature, even outside Japan. The primary reason is that the UTF-8 signature is much easier to implement than ISO-2022: if you support UTF-8 in your tool (say, a text editor), anyway, adding support for the UTF-8 signature is almost trivial. Therefore, many more editors support the UTF-8 signature today than ever supported ISO-2022.
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