>As a poor software maker, I suppose I ought to defend other software >makers. >EVERYONE KNOWS that Unicode and UTF-16 are the same thing. It is, >>unfortunately, irrelevant that in this case (as in so many others) "what >>everyone knows" happens to be untrue. We exist to conform to the user's >>expectations, not to educate him; still less to confuse him by replacing >a nice >simple word (Unicode) with indigestible code letters and digits >(UTF-16BE or >whatever).
>That said, has anyone a suggestion for names of available output formats >(as >presented to an end user) that would not confuse the user but would >satisfy the >purist? Just about anything would seen to be an improvement over the PR which Unicode now gets every time a user selects "Unicode" (when it means UTF-16) on his browser encoding menu and gets total gibberish on his screen.
