2016-03-30 20:24 GMT+02:00 Doug Ewell <[email protected]>: > > Fredrik passed this on: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfZE56E0Uts ; skip ahead to 1:30. > > This is great! Now all of America knows what Unicode is really all > about. >
All of America really? Do they all look at the same TV show on the same channel? Well there are probably many more people not even looking at TV but looking at video channels on the Internet (and there there's a plethora of videos with many other topics, seriously treated or not). May be they've heard about Unicode (but most often very superficially). Their contact with it (for example with emojis) is a choice panel on their smartphone, and they absolutely don't care about the encoding or any standard, they'll use these directly "as is" (and don't know really if this is correctly received, the way they intended). They don't even know if an Unicode encoding is really used to transport their messages. Most users on PC have never touched the browser settings about the "default encoding" for pages, they simply don't know how to choose (if they select something incorrect and this causes them problems, they'll just reset the brower default settings defined by other people). Unicode is absolutely not their problem (if there's a problem they will first blame the manufacturer of their device, or may be the maker of the software). Look at their support forum about those issues, in most times they do not understand the technical details, and just ask for a one-click solution (to reset the preferences that were incorrectly set).
