"Paul Prescod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> text data cannot even be reliably processed on the desktop on which
> it was created (yes, even on Unix: look back in this thread).
Where?
New communication protocols and newly created file formats designed
for interchange will either specify the text encoding in metadata
(if files are expected to be edited by hand and it's still a near future),
or use UTF-8 exclusively. Simple file formats expected to be used only
locally will continue to have the encoding implicit.
The system encoding of Unix boxes will more commonly be UTF-8 as time
passes.
Okay, thanks for your view of where things are going. I think that it is clear that UTF-8 will replace iso8859-* on Unix over the next few years. It isn't as clear if it (or any other global encoding) will replace EUC.
Paul Prescod
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