I'm just saying UTF-8 everywhere is even more unrealistic than any
other options at hand.
Too bad, because it's the only option that's remotely practical in the
long term. Do you really think every programmer who wants to mung text
is going to include code that supports not only the hundreds of extant
character encodings but also the seventeen kinds of in-band and
out-of-band declarations of them?
I think that persuading users is more difficult than
persuading programmers. I have encouraged use of Unicode
for XML in Japan, but nothing has happened.
Cheers,
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MURATA Makoto <murata(_at_)hokkaido(_dot_)email(_dot_)ne(_dot_)jp>