Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?
2008/5/5 Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>:
> Here is an argument for you: using ascii is delaying the adoption of
> utf-8.
>
> Let me elaborate. Romanian is using a few special characters (a,i,s and
> t with diacritics) which are only available in utf-8 (and maybe
> iso-8852-16?). To make things worse, MS implemented the wrong characters
> (from iso-8852-2) up to XP and only corrected this in Vista (and a
> recent update for XP).
>
> Right now we have the following situation: some people use the special
> characters when writing, but they mostly use the wrong ones. Others
> (the majority) don't use them at all (making Romanian texts difficult to
> read, because without the diacritics many words look the same) because
> it's too much trouble. Even if you configure your own computer to show
> them right, you never know what other people are using.
>
> Switching everybody to utf-8 would be the best and simplest solution.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
You are 100% correct, Andrei. See those Hebrew letters at the bottom
of every post I make? It's to build a database of wrongly-encoded
Hebrew when people reply, so that I can decode messages from people
who are not using UTF-8. It's a huge problem, one that I'm trying to
help deal with on the http://gibberish.co.il website.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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