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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:31:37 -0400
From:      Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        sjg@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, marcel@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML
Message-ID:  <201407311531.s6VFVbJn094888@idle.juniper.net>
In-Reply-To: <94841.1406796243@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>The real question is how it will be perceived if we are *not* actively
>going UTF-8 by that time?

And moving toward UTF-8 won't be simple.  I just tossed a couple
of file from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/ into a
few apps that are supposed to support UTF-8 (emacs, vim, firefox)
and the results were underwhelming.  Skimming the description of
xterm support for UTF-8 gives some appreciation for how complex
this crap is (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#xterm).

That said, I'm a bit tired of explaining to my kids why I'm typing
in black and white terminal windows in the age of HTML5 ;^)

Thanks,
 Phil



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