On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:42:28PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
