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Re: IDN (was Did anyone tell Microsoft yet?)

2002-05-05 08:33:04

actually I haven't seen a single compelling argument to move to utf-8.

The time that programmers waste dealing with today's horrifying mess of
character encodings is time taken away from providing real features for
the users. It's so much time, in fact, that programmers invariably cut
corners, producing occasional failures for the users.

true enough.  but the pain in transition is an even more horrifying mess,
and there's no assurance that the eventual result of transitioning won't 
be at least as horrifying as the current state of affairs.  

it's far easier to explain to programmers how to implement the current
specifications well, than to explain to programmers how to implement 
the transition well.  

Keith