Subj : utf-8 support
To   : Nil Alexandrov
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Apr 04 2019 07:46 pm

On 04/04/2019 11:43 a.m., Nil Alexandrov : August Abolins wrote:

> http://utf8everywhere.org
>
> The fact that you don't care about charsets and encodings is that
> all software developers just started using Unicode/utf8 everywhere
> since about 2000.

I never said I don't care.  I do like the automatic rendering of UTF-8 using 
Thunderbird reader.  However, there is a problem in my OpenXP (originally a 
German program). Not sure about UTF-8 in WinPoint.

Thanks for the link.  Looks good.  I will check it out, later.


> Also, as an English native speaker you don't read non-Latin alphabet text,
> except those fancy accents present in French which is well supported within
> 8-bit encoding.

I am *not* a native English speaker.  ;)   French is a third language, but 
hardly fluent.  Wanna guess my first?


> The rest of the world was suffering from multiple encodings
> until the Unicode standard took place.

I concur. UTF-8 = a good thing!

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