gabriel rosenkoetter on 1 Apr 2004 12:25:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] UTF-8, Second Opinion 

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 11:37:21PM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> unicode handle the encoding of the text appropriately, but the burden
> is still on the application to support the proper methods for displaying
> and inputting the characters.

Um. Only if the text being displayed is actually Unicode. If it is
someone else's idea of ASCII, and the locale isn't explicitly
stated, the character codes won't magically map into the right place
for UTF-8 display.

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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