Newbie question about text encoding
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Tue Feb 24 20:20:08 EST 2015
Laura Creighton wrote:
> The idea that the whole world loves utf-8 is nonsense.
I don't think anyone says the whole world loves UTF-8. I think people say
that the whole world *ought to* love UTF-8, and that legacy encodings from
the Windows "code-page" days ought to die.
> Most of europe has been using latin1, latin2 etc. before
> unicode was invented and will, as far as I know, continue to use it.
And this is why people in Greece cannot transfer text files to people in
France without the content changing (ISO-8859-7 vs ISO-8859-1). And why
Russians cannot even swap text files with other Russians (a plethora of
encodings).
:-(
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Steven
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