> But this is only one possibility. For Asians, UTF-16 is really more > "economic" than UTF-8. UTF-8 in Perl, GNOME, and other Open Source > software seems connected with the facts that they are mainly developed > and used by Western developers/users and they have a root in Unix.
I think you are wrong about that. Gnome/GTK programmers, in my observation, are very much concerned with asian languages in particular. (Thats not even mentioning the native speakers themselves) Ive also worked with Windows platform programmers, and on average they are much less concerned with other languages, and almost as a rule code their string manipulation in ways which are guaranteed to break UTF-16. (Thats when they even use utf-16 at all, mostly they stick to ascii, or zero-padded-ascii) I think its important for the programmer to be confronted with UTF-8. If they are led to believe that the "platform handles it automatically" they will continue to make mistakes based upon false assumptions. This may be just my own experience, but I'm will to bet youve mischaracterized Gnome as being "non-asian". -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
