Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:13:57 +0800 |
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On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 14:06 +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Russell King schrieb: > > Welcome to the mess which the UTF-8 charset creates.
Utter bollocks.
> The problem of different character encodings coexisting on the same > platform, and the resulting occasional messing-up, far predates Unicode. > I distinctly remember one case of being bitten by this myself in 1977 > when Unicode wasn't even on the horizon yet, and I don't think that was > the first time.
Indeed. If you take arbitrary content and send it out to the world labelled as ISO8859-1, of _course_ you're likely to be corrupting it.
Far from being the cause of the problem, UTF-8 actually offers the chance of a _solution_. Because once the Luddites catch up, it'll largely eliminate the need for using the multitude of legacy character sets and converting between them -- and the problem of mislabelling will fairly much go away.
-- dwmw2
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