The kernel and character set encodings

Posted Feb 19, 2004 12:14 UTC (Thu) by mwh (guest, #582)
In reply to: The kernel and character set encodings by Cato
Parent article: The kernel and character set encodings

> Unicode makes life more complicated for everyone

  If Unicode is a horde of zombies with flaming dung sticks, 
  the hideous intricacies of JIS, Chinese Big-5, Chinese 
  Traditional, KOI-8, et cetera are at least an army of ogres 
  with salt and flensing knives.        -- Eric S. Raymond, python-dev

Unicode isn't that hard to deal with, although I'd admit to not having any intuition for what the right answer is in this situation.