> > that how will browsers perform that are build on non-Unicode > based OSes? > > But surely Mac OSX has been designed to support Unicode ?? > How much longer will we need browsers to run in operating > environments that are non-Unicode based? > > > Let us hope that this drop of support will result in a browser > that is > > specifically designed to provide good Unicode support on a > non-Unicode OS > > rather than adding Unicode support to a piece of code that was > designed for > > an OS with integrated Unicode support.
Hmmm ... I also thought that Mac OSX *IS* a Unicode OS: That's what UTF-8 was designed for, wasn't it? To bring Unicode to the UNIX byte-oriented OSes, and OSX is built around an Open Source BSD core, right? As far as my experience goes, OSX has very good Unicode UTF-8 support at the OS level, with nice fonts and beautiful rendering.
