On Tuesday 05 March 2002 15:58, Tod Harter wrote: > And that just illustrates my point, that encoding dependencies tend to crop > up in LOTS of places all the time. I argue that if the software engineering > world had simply said to itself 10 years ago "OK, chars are now 32 bits" > that it would have taken a LOT less time for systems to adapt. Obviously > there are valid objections to that, I just tend to wonder if the right > decision was made. I have this feeling that eventually, as storage and > bandwidth become less relevant things will tend to focus on speed and > reliability, and in that realm simple encodings are better.
Except that UTF-8 wasn't created for bandwidth saving. It was created for backcompat. And in that it helps a lot. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Robin Berjon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- CTO k n o w s c a p e : // venture knowledge agency www.knowscape.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
