RE: Nicest UTF ----- Original Message ----- From: Lars Kristan To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 2:45 PM Subject: RE: Nicest UTF
Theodore H. Smith wrote: > What would be the nicest UTF to use? > > I think UTF8 would be the nicest UTF. > > I agree. But not for reasons you mentioned. There is one other important > advantage: > UTF-8 is stored in a way that permits storing invalid sequences. Why not just store your invalid sequences in /dev/null? Plenty of room there! Some lusers may complain that they have difficulties retrieving them, but you can simply point out to them they would also have difficulties if their UTF-8 with invalid sequences was converted to another encoding scheme and back, so those complaints don't really matter. BOFH
