On Jan 26, 2012, at 11:53 PM, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote:
> On 27.01.12 08:43, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote:
>> On 27.01.12 05:02, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>>>> UTF-8 which should serve the entire world.
> Just a side note:
> http://colorelle.ru/silly/uni_vs_code.pdf
>
> Briefly: unicode has made much more problems then tried to solve.
Actually, reading that paper, I think the authors didn't understand a few
fundamental concerns. Yes, Unicode has flaws, but much of these are addressed
by standard normalizations, and UTF-8, for example. (Using UCS-2 for on-disk
or over the wire formats makes no sense -- its an in core format that should
always use native endianness, for example.) The author also clearly does not
understand a few other major points e.g. the problems with collation -- I have
a much deeper respect for these problems and understand why Unicode can't solve
that. Likewise, it isn't for the encoding to supply the language context --
only a few encodings do that -- and that is only because they are unique to a
specific language like KOI8-R. (E.g. 8859-x doesn't imply the language at all.)
- Garrett
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