Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:26:41 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@gmail.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, des@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r184691 - head/sys/compat/linprocfs Message-ID: <9bbcef730811051526p3a978848uf904a149cb81fbce@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081105.150108.1649771743.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200811051508.mA5F89XD030040@svn.freebsd.org> <20081105.150108.1649771743.imp@bsdimp.com>
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2008/11/5 M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>: > In message: <200811051508.mA5F89XD030040@svn.freebsd.org> > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : utf-8 > > Is there some reason to prefer utf-8 over the 8-bit iso character set > we were using? Reason? You mean you actually *like* 8-bit code pages in the first place? :) As a person from a country that has during its history decided it really needs 3-4 dots and dashes in its alphabet that make it (the alphabet) not representable in ASCII, and who has had Many Fun Days converting between various 8-bit code pages, ISO standard or not, and especially with deducing which code page is actually being used as all bytes are created equal (and Microsoft just *had* to tweak two letters from iso8859-2 into Latin2), I welcome UTF-8 with a warm room, a beer, peanuts and a backrub. UTF-8 (as opposed to old 8-bit code pages which need to die as soon as possible and UTF-16 which got itself messed up with endianess) in unambiguous. A sequence of proper UTF-8 bytes (and UTF-8 has a structure so not every random collection of bytes with the 8th bit set is proper UTF-8) can always be linked to the same letter. This is why there's such a big push to get systems to properly support UTF-8. FreeBSD had a SoC project this year that was supposed to properly implement Unicode collations (and thus collation of UTF-8 strings) but it looks dead or in a dormant state right now (though I didn't follow it attentively).
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