Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

Tue May 28 21:43:27 PDT 2013

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:36:08AM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> On 29/05/13 09:57, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:33:32AM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> >>On 28/05/13 19:12, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> >>>On 2013-05-28 08:00, Manu wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Is there anywhere other than America that doesn't?
> >>>
> >>>Canada, Jamaica, other countries in that region?
> >>>
> >>
> >>Last time I looked Canada was in America (which is a continent not a
> >>country). :-)
> >[...]
> >
> >If you say that to a Canadian to his face, you might get a hostile
> >(or faux-hostile) reaction. :)
[...]
> Last time I was there (about 40 years ago) Canadians didn't seem
> that touchy. :-)
[...]

Well, they are not, hence "faux-hostile". :)

T

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