Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012)
by Avernar on Monday June 20, 2016 @02:44PM
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> Plain text is friendly towards developers. But it’s neither interop-friendly nor user friendly.
Kind of got off track here. You can process a lot of formats as text (html, css, xml, etc). So a BOM there is unnecessary and sometimes detrimental. On the unix side there are a lot of text utilities that do useful things that you can do on these formats. That's probably why BOMs are non existent there.
> MS can’t change the compiler because backward compatibility.
You care to tell MS that? Every single time I've done a major VS upgrade my code had to be changed because something that was valid before stopped being valid.
> And there aren’t any.
If you can't see any benefit of using UTF-8 then I'm done debating with you.
Kind of got off track here. You can process a lot of formats as text (html, css, xml, etc). So a BOM there is unnecessary and sometimes detrimental. On the unix side there are a lot of text utilities that do useful things that you can do on these formats. That's probably why BOMs are non existent there.
> MS can’t change the compiler because backward compatibility.
You care to tell MS that? Every single time I've done a major VS upgrade my code had to be changed because something that was valid before stopped being valid.
> And there aren’t any.
If you can't see any benefit of using UTF-8 then I'm done debating with you.