Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:31:57PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:22, John Goerzen wrote:
>
> > Then your solution is broken. Seriously, this would be a huge problem
> > for many people.
>
> But the current situation is *already* broken! For example, for a
> Chinese person, an ISO-8859-1 system simply cannot encode, nor display,
> their language. I am aware that for people entrenched in legacy
> charsets like ISO-8859-1, the transition may introduce
> incompatibilities. But that's the price we pay to eventually make
> everything work for everyone.
See http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2003-01/msg00037.html
It would be nice to make sure programs are ready before switching
everything to utf-8.
Denis
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