On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:42:21PM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote: : On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Glenn Maynard wrote: : > > (To avoid confusion, we don't call our encoding UTF-8. We tend to : > > say UTF-8 when we mean UTF-8, and "utf8" when we mean the more general : > > not-necessarily-Unicode encoding. : > : > This is an insane way to make a distinction, just as silly as trying to : > differentiate between "kilobits" and "kilobytes" with "kb" and "kB". : > Changing hyphens and case doesn't make distinctions or avoid confusion. : : Yes, it would be better to call the more general encoding, say, UTF-P.
And I think that could be construed as "multiplication of entities". Speaking as a representative of persons of limited genius, I would say that the average Perl programmer is not at all interested in the distinction, so the confusion is intentional and useful--except when it's not, and then we have a designated way to talk about it. It would also not be inaccurate to think of it as a small act of civil disobedience on my part. I expect to get busted occasionally. :-) Larry -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
