On 21 Sep 2003 22:06:30 -0500
"Aaron Swartz" <me(_at_)aaronsw(_dot_)com> wrote:
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.
The users shouldn't have to know what a character encoding is! Their
software should just use UTF-8 automatically.
Will users discard existing software, which supports legacy encogins, and
existing data, which are in legacy encodings? I am not saying Unicode
everywhere is bad. To the contrary, I think Unicode everywhere is better.
But it is extremely unlikely.
Cheers,
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MURATA Makoto <murata(_at_)hokkaido(_dot_)email(_dot_)ne(_dot_)jp>