Re:UTF-8 good, UTF-16 bad
by derleth on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @01:56PM
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> or many of those outside "A" in ASCII (euphemism for America :)
Abbreviation for 'American', in fact. No euphemisms needed.
(ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
> there were already a ton of problems, so endianness was the least
I can appreciate this. However, UTF-8 also has desirable properties like 'dropping a single byte only means you lose one character, as opposed to potentially losing the whole file', and 'you can often tell if a multi-byte UTF-8 sequence has been corrupted without doing complex analysis'.
> i'm not that serious about predominance of Latin script, this is sorta irony
Heh. ASCII can't even encode the entirety of the Latin script: Ask a Frenchman how he spells 'café', or a German how he spells 'straße', and notice how important characters are missing from ASCII.
Abbreviation for 'American', in fact. No euphemisms needed.
(ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
> there were already a ton of problems, so endianness was the least
I can appreciate this. However, UTF-8 also has desirable properties like 'dropping a single byte only means you lose one character, as opposed to potentially losing the whole file', and 'you can often tell if a multi-byte UTF-8 sequence has been corrupted without doing complex analysis'.
> i'm not that serious about predominance of Latin script, this is sorta irony
Heh. ASCII can't even encode the entirety of the Latin script: Ask a Frenchman how he spells 'café', or a German how he spells 'straße', and notice how important characters are missing from ASCII.