Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:17:09 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: Lars Eighner <lars@larseighner.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML Message-ID: <4F93CC95.5050209@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204210909450.5338@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <20120421055823.GA6788@tinyCurrent> <4F9253D7.7010609@locolomo.org> <4F9278A2.1020301@locolomo.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204210909450.5338@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
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On 21/04/2012 16:10, Lars Eighner wrote: > UTF-8 is a waste of storage for most people and is incompatiple with > text-mode tools: it's simple another bid to make it impossible to run > without a GUI. UTF-8 is variable with, ascii characters are stored as single bytes (not sure about iso-8859-1) while other characters are stored as two byte chars. If your text tools cannot display certain or all UTF-8 characters it is for one of the following reasons: it is either because the application does not support UTF-8, the display table is missing some characters, or the limited display capabilities of terminal/console mode and the complexity of that particular glyph. Neither of the first two cases are an agument against UTF-8, it's a it's an implementation issue, send a bug report or feature request to the developer. In the last case, I hope you're not saying that we should limit the fredom of expression to what can be expressed in console mode? :P Cheers, Erik -- M: +34 666 334 818 T: +34 915 211 157
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