Claude Schneegans wrote: > >>claude's a long standing shoe thrower when it comes to unicode > > On the contrary, I have a full respect fof Unicode, when it is necessary. > But I find simply ridiculous to have all French characters using 2 or 3 > bytes in UTF-8 > when 8859 can do the job with only one byte. > > I do not argue that a harvester is a very handy and powerfull machine, > but not if you just have a few square feet of grass in front of your > house ;-) >
I was working with German which also does not need anything special encoding.Or looks like ... But when my boss came and asked a non-German name which we need to use as is and could not figure out with same encoding in same page, we decided to find a solution. The other headache was converting our old CF5 database to send another company via XML. They have requested XML in Unicode (utf-8) but we had a "stupid" database which could not handle it and all content was saved with CF5. Hmmm... Ah, if I also can not write my name as is in a platform, I just don't like this solution. :) Long live Unicode! OÄuz Demirkapı TeraTech Inc. | Senior Developer 405 East Gude Dr Suite 207, Rockville, MD 20850, USA Voice: +1 (301) 424-3903 ext 111 | Fax: +1 (301) 762-8185 Web: http://www.teratech.com | E-mail: oguz.demirkapi <AT> teratech.com Winner in CFDJ awards Best Consulting. Member Team Fusebox. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:261005 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
