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Re: UTF-8 charset [message #180856 is a reply to message #180854] Fri, 22 March 2013 00:55 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Christoph Becker is currently offline  Christoph Becker
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

>> Am 21.03.2013 15:31, schrieb Adrian Tuddenham:

>>> There are some computers that cannot read UTF-8.

> That would be computers and software older than 30 years now. The Unicode
> Standard, version 2.0, and UTF-8, one the encodings for the character set
> thus specified, was published in 1992 CE. All reasonably modern operating
> systems, in effect all commonly used ones, support Unicode and provide
> Unicode-capable fonts. Many have made a Unicode encoding their default
> encoding; for example, NTFS encodes filenames using UTF-16, and UTF-8 has
> been the default locale encoding on GNU/Linux systems for several years now.

I recently read, that UTF-8 is not available on many Windows PCs in
Taiwan, where `BIG5' is still prevalent, what would be very unfortunate.
OTOH restricting oneself to ASCII on Usenet reminds me of offering full
support for IE 6 on the Web (e.g. by using GIFs instead PNGs when
transparency is required), which IMO holds back reasonable innovation.

> Thus, a major criticism of PHP is that as of version 5.4 it still has no
> native Unicode support, while other popular programming languages on the
> Web, like ECMAScript implementations and Python, have.

Indeed, that's a shame and rather painful for developers. And if I'm
not mistaken, the situation won't change with PHP 5.5. :(

--
Christoph M. Becker
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