On 27.01.12 11:43, 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.)
Feel free to discuss this paper with its author :-) His e-mail is in the
paper itself.
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