Re: [idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8

["Mark Davis" <markdavis34@home.com>]

A huge number of people in non-English speaking countries are using Unicode,
*and don't know it*. Anyone using Windows NT/2000, or Microsoft Office is,
as well as many other products. Many websites use Unicode internally, and
just convert to the user's codepage, etc.

Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>
To: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 14:58
Subject: Re: [idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8


> 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
> >
>
>