Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. | Date | Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:09:56 +0200 |
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In article <200506181804.21366.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> you wrote: > Every unicode character has exactly one UTF-8 representation.
Every unicode code point has exactly one UTF-8 representation, however there are for a few glyphs multiple code points. And this is not only a problem beause of homoglphys which look like/similiar, but also because of combining characters vs. legacy characters. However thats more an issue of the user interface (think IDN exploits).
Personally I think the on-disk filesystem format should be required to be UTF-8, and its an open discussion if the syscalls accept UTF-8 or locale byte encodings. Currently its a mess. We can learn from Windows here:)
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