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Am Fr den 11. Feb 2011 um 10:37 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > The first Unicode standard was published in 1991. That's twenty years > ago. Any software that processes text at all and is incapable of dealing > with UTF-8 should be considered with extreme suspicion. Making all such > bugs be release critical (which includes the notion that release > managers may ignore the bug in particular cases) sounds like a good way > to get things under control. I think you are mixing stuff together. First there is unicode. There are several definitions for unicode (unicode-16, unicode-32, ...) but UTF-8 is not unicode it is just one implementation of unicode and in my eyes the most problematic as it has undefined states and is variable length. However, UTF-8 was created to allow using unicode in non-unicode environments. For me that was always a pointless plan and the unreadable UTF-8 characters all around buggy software that cannot handle encodings correct (and there are many around) and ignorant users who are using UTF-8 in environments that are not specified for multibyte charsets (IRC) is the most annoying one. As there are places where UTF-8 makes perfect sense and is the best solution it is not the best solution for all ignorance users (me too ;-) have. So specifying to be UTF-8 capable is somewhat inconsequent. Software has to be capable to handle every encoding as long as they are specified for that encodings. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.de> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBTVUksZ+OKpjRpO3lAQoxGgf/WRdHVqOQ+4A/VkbaLRkXk7uZMKk1uNMT t5gIbmtkIZLRhGkVZIzuVNXT7Zlq+tS3HwpbUaHNmd7ImNUlN+m9dP1gJFacZaGd zYeM0L1G9nfh4iwNmNIqQ/ZhF3lnOUtV6kDqvlZ4EgIwXfAPDZeFMgCxkCeh8mbq H2MABIqwGxahqQoZ6Oql0npvE4QMVB7Use2iT2pPiNBSsB1hFzH9sqNu+uNdbko9 mI82BLHhMwwjhIo3ceFEHkah5pCPlJpTJHgRLd5nYf6/BUkEiR+ECnohdbkjjX5d 1ftp+4Q7Bngve1+5vM4yKQJAEx5vV1kV8U+GaQGE8Kad+op2BhWL+Q== =VYai -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110211115946.ga4...@ikki.ethgen.ch
