> On 10/7/10 7:59 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Okay, so that begs the question, if there is no difference > between UTF8 and ASCII, why make the distinction? I mean, > what would be the point to converting from ASCII to UTF8 or > vis versa if the results were always the same? > > > > Just being practical.
UTF8 is (at a minimum) what you want to internationalize your applications. You can display and manage most of the world's languages with UTF8, though I am more partial to UTF16 because UTF8 has some limitations when it comes to searching/sorting with Chinese characters. Today's operating systems pretty much use UTF16 and may or may not be slapped down to UTF8. There used to be ASCII and extended ASCII, though I guess they are simply just ASCII now. We use UTF16 internally with Valentina, and in cases where the client cannot handle it, it gets transformed so its useful. Valentina was chosen years ago by Nikon Corporation for Picture Project, a piece of software they shipped worldwide with their digital cameras, because our Unicode support was so good - it made shipping in so many languages easy for them. I still have sweaty nightmares about DOS code pages... Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
