On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:45:36PM +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Less error phrone and conformant to international standards.
> > 
> > I still don't get it, how an encoding can be less error prone than
> > another?
> 
> UTF-8 (Unicode) works universal for ANY language and charset and as such
> all modern editors can open it without problems. For many other
> encodings they have to guess which to use and as guessing is sometimes
> wrong - that is error prone.

That makes the "other encodings" error prone, not UTF-8, which is not
what he was saying.

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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