Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote on 2001-02-06 02:08 UTC:
> I recently feel that standardizing of encoding for filenames is
> too early now. When UTF-8 will become major in future (I guess
> about ten years later) we would discuss again.
10 years is IMHO almost one order of magnitude too long. Remember: Ten
years ago, Linux did not exist, Unicode/UCS almost did not yet exist,
etc. Software and Hardware gets thrown away typically every 3-5 years,
and upgraded even more frequently. 24-36 months is a far more adequate
schedule for a UTF-8 transition of >50% of all users. That's also how
long it took to migrate to UCS-2 in the Win32 world globally.
Markus
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