Preston L. Bannister wrote:
> As a start I would suggest *accepting* UTF8 everywhere ASCII (8859_1)
> is accepted now. I don't think this will break anything, and would
> support all (or most?) local character sets.
>
> I think this is pretty much a no-brainer.
-1
8859_1 is not ASCII. ASCII is 7-bit, 8859_1/Latin-1 is 8-bit.
UTF8 and 8859_1 are only the same for the first 128 characters, so a
conversion from what is now Latin-1 to UTF8 would break for all pages
containing chars between 128 and 255 that have throughout time assumed
Latin-1 as the default. To make this change you'd have a lot of upset
Spanish, German, and French speakers.
> Second you might consider *generating* UTF8 everywhere ASCII (8859_1)
> is generated now. I don't think this will break anything,
-1
It *would* break things.
-jh-
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