2008/5/5 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here is an argument for you: using ascii is delaying the adoption of > utf-8. > > Let me elaborate. Romanian is using a few special characters (a,i,s and > t with diacritics) which are only available in utf-8 (and maybe > iso-8852-16?). To make things worse, MS implemented the wrong characters > (from iso-8852-2) up to XP and only corrected this in Vista (and a > recent update for XP). > > Right now we have the following situation: some people use the special > characters when writing, but they mostly use the wrong ones. Others > (the majority) don't use them at all (making Romanian texts difficult to > read, because without the diacritics many words look the same) because > it's too much trouble. Even if you configure your own computer to show > them right, you never know what other people are using. > > Switching everybody to utf-8 would be the best and simplest solution. > > Regards, > Andrei
You are 100% correct, Andrei. See those Hebrew letters at the bottom of every post I make? It's to build a database of wrongly-encoded Hebrew when people reply, so that I can decode messages from people who are not using UTF-8. It's a huge problem, one that I'm trying to help deal with on the http://gibberish.co.il website. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?