Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > What was wrong > with UTF-8 one wonders (rhetorical question, donÂt really want to > know the answer because it is probably very complicated).
UTF-8 is upward compatible with ASCII, but the Chinese government wanted something that is upward compatible with GB2312, and thus they created GB18030. Bruno -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
