On 25 June 2010 20:18, Owen Shepherd <owen.sheph...@e43.eu> wrote: > One of the reasons that I'm a fan of SCSU is that, with even a > relatively simple encoder, it produces output which is comparable in > efficiency to that of most legacy encodings.
SCSU is a horrendous encoding because it uses shifts. When the shift is lost the text has completely different meaning. In UTF-8 if you remove part of the text only that part is affected (if you cut mid-character you create a bad character at worst but it can be clearly detected). Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users