Messages in this thread | | | From | "Norman Diamond" <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 filenames | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:34:57 +0900 |
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Robin Rosenberg replied to me:
> > Of course. Perhaps my use of reductio al absurdum was unclear.
Actually Mark Hahn got me on that, it should be ad, but I get too many ads already. Now reminiscing about the days before I posted to LKML, because my inbox was less than 75% spams in those days.
> > 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
Oh, then it was even later to the scene than I thought.
> 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.
SJIS and EUC both existed before 1987.
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