Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) | Date | Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:40:08 -0300 | From | "Horst H. von Brand" <> |
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
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> All that UTF-8 has done is added to the "which charset is this data" > problem rather than actually solving any proper real life problem.
It solves real-world problems, the pain is that it is not (yet) universally used. The charset problems today are much more visible today than, say, 15 years back, that is all. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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