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Keith Moore vs. UTF-8: the battle begins

2002-05-07 16:44:28

Keith 7-bits-forever Moore writes:
We're a long way from discovering a Universal Format for everything
(and no, UTF-8 is NOT it

Don't hold back, Keith. Tell us exactly what's wrong with UTF-8.

backward compatibility

What exactly is the problem, Keith? You're unhappy that UTF-8 software
won't read your EBCDIC files? Or that your 36-bit computers need new
software to handle UTF-8 data?

only applicable to a limited kind of text)

What are you talking about, Keith?

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago