On Dec 10, 8:58 am, Leonid Evdokimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nikita Youshchenko wrote:
> > I'm not familiar with icq protocol, so the questions may be dumb. However:
>
> > - Since these days icq does support utf8, isn't it more correct to use utf8
> > instead of windows-1251?
>
> By the way, ICQ used to support UTF-16 long long ago, I don't quite
> understand why UTF-16 was replaced with UTF-8.
UTF-8 is more usable than UTF-16. It have backward compatibility with
ASCII. Even if application don't understand UTF-8 it can show latin
symbols. With mixed text (eng+other language) UTF-8 gives advantage in
size before UTF-16. It's power of Unicode plus more flexibility.
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