On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:58:13 -0500 Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.com> wrote:
I am a believer ;) and when people realize that UTF-8 is the way to go, the pesky problems will vanish. Believe me today with ANSI
I do not believe that UTF-8 is the way to go. In fact I know it is not, except perhaps for the very near future for some programmers ( Linux advocates ).
Inevitably a Unicode standard will be adapted where every character of every language will be represented by a single fixed length number of bits. [...]
I'm no Unicode expert, but the reason this hasn't happened might be combinatorial explosion. In which case it might never happen. But I could well be wrong. And I hope I am, the design you outline is something I'd love to see. -- Chad Nelson Oak Circle Software, Inc. * * *