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Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:
who is going to pay for such a change? who is going to want to deal
with the disruption that it would cause?
Nobody, because nobody (except you apparently) imagines that it would be
done in a manner which caused such widespread disruption.
Such a change inhernetly causes widespread disruption.
Again, you are assuming what you are trying to prove, which is no way to
argue.
Ned said, right at the start of this thread, that introducing UTF-8 was
not inherently hard or difficult, but that there were a certain number of
problems that would need to be tackled, amongst which would likely be a
suitable means of falling back to a 7-bit encoding.
So yes, it would have to be introduced with care, and tradeoffs between
various approaches would have to be looked into.
But the way forward would be to examine the problems to find ways to work
around them, rather than to declare in advance, without proof, that is is
impossible.
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