John Meacham wrote:
I would highly highly recommend using utf8. inventing new formats
without very clear and pervasive benefits is just not good practice and
I wouldn't want to see it in standard libraries.
I still think it should not matter what the library uses *internally*.
The only way th
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:14:26PM +0100, Twan van Laarhoven wrote:
> The reason for inventing my own encoding is that it is easier to use and
> takes less space than UTF-8. The only advantage UTF-8 has is that it can
> be read and written directly. I guess this is a trade off, faster
> manipula
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:16:17PM +0900, shelarcy wrote:
> I'm afraid that its fantasy is broken again, as no surrogate
> pair UCS-2 cover all language that is trusted before Europe
> and America people.
UCS-2 is a disaster in every way. someone had to say it. :)
everything should be ascii, utf8
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