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Re: [idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8
- To: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>, <idn@ops.ietf.org>
- Subject: Re: [idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8
- From: "James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 06:58:46 +0800
- Delivery-date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:01:08 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
Dan,
When is the last time you travel to non-English speaking country and ask
the people there when they are going to switch over to UTF-8?
-James Seng
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 4:46 AM
Subject: [idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8
> Keith Moore writes:
> > your analysis assumes that most sites are or will be using UTF-8
locally.
> > this seems like quite a stretch as it is very different from current
reality.
>
> For extensive evidence that it's happening:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
> ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO.html
> http://czyborra.com/utf/#UTF-8
>
> ---Dan
>