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Locales and UTF-8

Locales and UTF-8

Posted May 8, 2009 16:56 UTC (Fri) by spitzak (guest, #4593)
In reply to: Locales and UTF-8 by endecotp
Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC

Thank you for a breath of fresh air! Somebody who gets it!

I do not understand why so many otherwise intelligent and experienced software engineers turn into such complete morons when they think about UTF-8.

Even more annoying: programmers do not seem to have this mental block when presented with the older multibyte Asian encodings, or with UTF-16 which is variable length as well. For some reason people only assign these made-up problems to UTF-8.


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