Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Sorry, real world is more complex than having a single UTF-8. Currently
> almost all applications on my computer use ISO-8859-2 internally and
> externally, without any conversion. Most are not aware that characters
> can be encoded in different ways at all.
>
> Starting to use UTF-8 means introducing *more* conversions at the
> beginning. I can't say "from now I will be using UTF-8 only", because
> most programs can't handle it, and because for example for mail &
> news I have to read and write ISO-8859-2 now.
>
> The only way to introduce UTF-8 into a working environment is to
> design and implement a generic encoding-aware framework, making UTF-8
> one of available encodings, together with encodings used before. Then
> gradually move to UTF-8 where possible, using the framework to keep
> everything in sync.
>
> People can switch to UTF-8 locale only if multibyte locale encodings
> work at all in applications they are interested in, and if explicit
> use of other encodings is possible where needed (like mail & news).
Well said!
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