Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

Marco Leise Marco.Leise at gmx.de
Thu May 30 12:12:06 PDT 2013


Am Thu, 30 May 2013 09:19:32 +0200
schrieb "Joakim" <joakim at airpost.net>:

> Your point is?  121 results, including false positives like
> "utf-8 is the best guess."  If you look at the results, almost
> all make the pragmatic recommendation that UTF-8 is the best _for
> now_, because it is better supported than other multi-language
> formats.  That's like saying Windows is the best OS because it's
> easier to find one in your local computer store.
> 
> Yet again, the fact that even this somewhat ambiguous search
> string has only 121 results is damning of anyone liking UTF-8,
> nothing else, given the many thousands of programmmers that are
> forced to use Unicode if they want to internationalize.

Alright, for me it said ~6.570.000 results, which I found
funny. I'm not trying to make a point, but to troll. If there
is a point to be made, then that the count of search results
is a _very_ rough estimate.

-- 
Marco



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