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

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Date:	Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:40:08 -0300
From:	"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>
To:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) 

Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> wrote:

[...]

> 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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