19 Jan
2011
19 Jan
'11
6:35 p.m.
At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:58:13 -0500, Edward Diener wrote:
I do not think that shoving UTF-8 down everybody's throats is the best solution even now, I think a good set of classes to convert between encoding standards is much better.
Can we please tone down the rhetoric here? I could say, "I do not think that shoving a set of classes to convert between encoding standards down everybody's throats is the best solution..." but I don't think it would help anyone understand the issues better. Is there any harm in exploring the alternatives here in a calm and rational way? If we do that, and the approaches you oppose are truly inferior, that fact will become clear to everyone, I think. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com