From: Owen Taylor (otaylor@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Oct 23 2003 - 13:27:46 CST
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 04:54, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:56:16AM -0700,
> Peter Kirk <peterkirk@qaya.org> wrote
> a message of 22 lines which said:
>
> > In this page, Markus Kuhn is damaging his credibility by continuing to
> > refer in several places to Unicode 3.0, although the page was updated
> > some time after the release of Unicode 4.0. Is the rest of this material
> > similarly out of date?
>
> Exactly my point. At the present time, trying to switch your working
> environment from Latin-1 to Unicode means digging through a lot of
> documentations, often out of date or inaccurate, compiling a lot of
> programs (see Benjamin Peterson's posting for just one program, grep)
> and debugging the whole stuff.
>
> Switching to Unicode requires dedication, for the ordinary Unix user
> (who is not an Unicode consortium member, just an ordinary computer
> engineer).
Well, UTF-8 is the default encoding on many Linux distributions
these days (Red Hat, of course, is what I'm familiar with), so
that makes the amount of work involved in "switching" pretty
minimal.
Regards,
Owen
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