Martín Vales wrote: > I can see the advantages of use utf8 but the true it´s most of people > use utf16. I know gnome/linux/cairo/freedesktop promote utf8 but most > people use utf16: > http://unicode.org/notes/tn12/#Software_16
This is a very baseless claim. One that actually turns out to be false. Most people don't right Windows code. Most people read and write content on the internet, and I bet more than 99% of the Unicode content on the net is in UTF-8. As for the technical note you cite, it's a very biased document of its own. I once wrote a full critical review of it but can't find it. Lets just say that UTF-16 is at best implementation details of Firefox. I can't see how that can be relevant here. Moreover, it's plain wrong that Python uses UTF-16. Python APIs are encoding-agnostic, and while Python 2.x can be compiled with UCS-2, it's recommended that UCS-4 be enabled. And note the difference: I said UCS-2, not UTF-16. UTF-16 is a disease. It's variable-width, so it doesn't have the benefits of UTF-32. It's sixteen bit, so it doesn't have the ASCII-compatibility of UTF-8. Tell me one good thing about it other than "everyone made the mistake of using it and now they have to keep doing that because they exposed it in their API". behdad _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list