Unicode questions

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Tobiah <toby at rcsreg.com> writes:

> would be shared?  Why can't we just say "unicode is unicode"
> and just share files the way ASCII users do.  Just have a huge
> ASCII style table that everyone sticks to.

I'm not sure that I understand you correctly, but UCS-2 and UCS-4
encodings are that kind of thing.  Many people prefer UTF-8 because of
convenient backward compatibility with ASCII (and space economy when
dealing with mostly-ascii text).