> > The ultimate goal is that older encodings can start to > > fade away, and having every app that deals with text have > > to deal with a plethora of encodings and codeset conversion > > issues will be a thing of the past. > > Um, I think he knows this. :)
I was adressing the notion that iso-8859-1 would always be around, which Bram mentioned, sorry if my quoting wasnt explicit. I think even latin1 should go away. (Its not a subset of utf-8 and it encourages the use of the control formatting characters that make utf-8 mess up in most older terminals) -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
