[Note: These discussion should all move to 18n-sig... CCing there] Christopher Petrilli wrote:
Paul Prescod [paul@prescod.net] wrote:
Even working with exotic languages, there is always a native 8-bit encoding.
Unicode has many encodings: Shift-JIS, Big-5, EBCDIC ... You can use 8-bit encodings of Unicode if you want.
Um, if you go:
JIS -> Unicode -> JIS
you don't get the same thing out that you put in (at least this is what I've been told by a lot of Japanese developers), and therefore it's not terribly popular because of the nature of the Japanese (and Chinese) langauge.
My experience with Unicode is that a lot of Western people think it's the answer to every problem asked, while most asian language people disagree vehemently. This says the problem isn't solved yet, even if people wish to deny it.
Isn't this a problem of the translation rather than Unicode itself (Andy mentioned several times that you can use the private BMP areas to implement 1-1 round-trips) ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/