Re: [idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>]

Keith Moore wrote:
> 
> > For extensive evidence that it's happening:
> 
> that's not anything of the sort.  you cited evidence that a few
> energetic folks are implementing and modifying existing tools to
> support UTF-8.
> 
> that's a far cry from widespread adoption of UTF-8 by real users.

I think it's pretty clear that UTF-8 is the direction that most
environments are heading to, if they aren't there already.

 - Solaris 7 and higher use UTF-8 for the local (Unicode) interfaces
 - Windows 2000 and CE use Unicode and UTF-8
 - MacOS 9 (or X?) and higher same
 - etc... don't discount the Linux i8n efforts either, it is an extreme
   likelihood at the very least if not a statement of direction

End-user apps that support UTF-8 include Office 2000 and of course most of
the modern web/mail front-ends

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