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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
Alan Cox wrote:
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>> 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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