Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:33:00 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments |
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Alan Cox wrote: > >> Funny that you mention Windows. Windows has been using 16-bit unicode >> for a long time without problems. It's a clean encoding. Like it or not. > > I would describe the UCS-2 situation as a disaster area - embedded nuls > causing breakage, inability to represent the full unicode space and > awkward programming interfaces. >
Not to mention the fact that UCS-2 ran out of code points almost as soon as they said "no more codepoints." The result was UTF-16, a hideous abortion which took all the problems with wide encodings, combined it with all the problems of multibyte encodings, and added a few new ones for good measure.
-hpa
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