On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:05:38PM +0200, Johan Tibell wrote: > > I do not believe that anyone was seriously advocating multiple blessed > > encodings. The main question is *which* encoding to bless. 99+% of > > text I encounter is in US-ASCII, so I would favor UTF-8. Why is UTF-16 > > better for me? > > All software I write professional have to support 40 languages > (including CJK ones) so I would prefer UTF-16 in case I could use > Haskell at work some day in the future. I dunno that who uses what > encoding the most is good grounds to pick encoding though. Ease of > implementation and speed on some representative sample set of text may > be.
UTF-8 supports CJK languages too. The only question is efficiency, and I believe CJK is still a relatively uncommon case compared to English and other Latin-alphabet languages. (That said, I live in a country all of whose dominant languages use the Latin alphabet) Stefan
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