2008/11/5 M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : utf-8 > > Is there some reason to prefer utf-8 over the 8-bit iso character set > we were using?
Reason? You mean you actually *like* 8-bit code pages in the first place? :) As a person from a country that has during its history decided it really needs 3-4 dots and dashes in its alphabet that make it (the alphabet) not representable in ASCII, and who has had Many Fun Days converting between various 8-bit code pages, ISO standard or not, and especially with deducing which code page is actually being used as all bytes are created equal (and Microsoft just *had* to tweak two letters from iso8859-2 into Latin2), I welcome UTF-8 with a warm room, a beer, peanuts and a backrub. UTF-8 (as opposed to old 8-bit code pages which need to die as soon as possible and UTF-16 which got itself messed up with endianess) in unambiguous. A sequence of proper UTF-8 bytes (and UTF-8 has a structure so not every random collection of bytes with the 8th bit set is proper UTF-8) can always be linked to the same letter. This is why there's such a big push to get systems to properly support UTF-8. FreeBSD had a SoC project this year that was supposed to properly implement Unicode collations (and thus collation of UTF-8 strings) but it looks dead or in a dormant state right now (though I didn't follow it attentively). _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
