Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since the topic of accented characters comes up so often - what's the > status of UTF-8 support?
I'm still fairly new to the whole utf-8 thing, so take this worth a grain of salt. After poking at it a bit while working on the cuesheet stuff, I've come to the conclusion that the biggest problem is that it DOES work. Unfortunately, it's also complex and sensitive to things that you used to be able to ignore. So when working "correctly" it exposes all sorts of sloppy tagging, or locale mismatch, or other issues that you never knew you had, because it always "just worked" before. It turns out it's often much easier to end up with the "wrong" character than it is to track down where the mismatch occurred. Especially if you're tagging on a different machine (or sometimes even just a different shell) than slimserver is running on. And that's not even getting into the issues around how well supporting programs (taggers, fonts, terminal emulators, browsers, etc) deal with it. Don't get me wrong, I think utf-8 is definitely the way to go. It just has a bit of a learning curve if you're trying to make it translate to/from a non-utf-8 locale, and get all your tools in line. Beyond all of that though, slimserver seems to do the right thing. -michael -- "Klaatu Barada Nicto" _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
