From: Mike Ayers (mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com)
Date: Thu Dec 16 2004 - 12:58:25 CST
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Lars Kristan
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:33 AM
> All this should help Unicode (in general, and UTF-8 in UNIX
> filesystems in particular) to be accepted faster and with less pain.
>
> And that is something that definitely has something to do
> with both UTC and this list.
Wrong. What you are proposing will only encourage people to try to
make UTF-8 and legacy encodings live together indefinitely, which will make
for far more pain than a hard conversion would.
Incidentally, what you want to do is, in the general case,
impossible anyway. Look closer and think broader, and it should be obvious.
/|/|ike
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