Filesystems and case-insensitivity [LWN.net]

Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 28, 2018 19:41 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by niner
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity

I think "the Chinese hate UTF-8" is "citation needed".

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Posted Nov 29, 2018 0:36 UTC (Thu) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (3 responses)

The "Han unification" part of Unicode appears to have been controversial. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification

But I don't think UTF-8 per se is controversial in China. More so in Russia where it is an evil tool of US oppression.

Posted Nov 29, 2018 2:04 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

> More so in Russia where it is an evil tool of US oppression.
Uhm, no.

UTF-8 has finally solved the problem with the veritable zoo of commonly used Russian encodings (KOI-8, Win-1251, GOST, GOST-ALT, ISO).

Posted Nov 29, 2018 11:04 UTC (Thu) by andrewsh (subscriber, #71043) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, nobody (citation needed) ever used GOST or ISO encodings.

Posted Nov 29, 2018 11:07 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

GOST was used quite a lot in the pre-Internet era and surfaced periodically afterwards, in random places like receipt printer encodings.

ISO was used sometimes in the Internet. It was rare but it existed.