Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

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Russell King <[email protected]> wrote:

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> All that UTF-8 has done is added to the "which charset is this data"
> problem rather than actually solving any proper real life problem.

It solves real-world problems, the pain is that it is not (yet) universally
used. The charset problems today are much more visible today than, say, 15
years back, that is all.
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