Adam Olsen wrote: > A half-broken setup is still a broken setup. Eventually you have to > tell people to stop screwing around and pick one encoding. > But it's not a broken setup. It's the way the world is because people share things with each other.
> I doubt that UTF-16 is used very much (other than on windows). I > haven't found any statistics on what distros use, but did find this > one of the web itself: > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html > UTF-16 is popular in Asian locales for the same reason that shift-js and big-5 are hanging in there. utf-8 takes many more bytes to encode Asian Unicode characters than utf-16. -Toshio
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