Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:42:28PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> immo vero scripsit
>
> > > utf8 in the current state does not cover everything we had in other encodings.
> >
> > utf8 is just a _multibyte_ encoding, not _character_ encoding,
> > it can represent whatever character encoding is used in UCS-4
>
> UCS4 is not a satisfactory encoding for our needs, unfortunately.
> JIS is not comlpete either, but UCS4 is less.
but: JIS is japanese only, UCS-4 is global
UCS-4 can (and will) be easily expanded, there are no technical
problems in adding characters to this encoding
can JIS be easily extended to support missing characters?
I do not think so...
UCS-4 can, given some effort.
>
> I would not go against making programs utf-8-aware,
> but I don't think that changing all the documentation to utf-8
> is going too far.
not yet - it will be just recommendation so far
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