30 Nov
2007
30 Nov
'07
7:46 a.m.
Language of messages is quite different from language of a file you read. (...)
Yes, it's a fundamental limitation of the unix locale system and multi-user systems. However it's no less wrong than just picking UTF8 all the time. (...)
Am I wrong to think that UTF8 should be THE standard? I believe it can encode anything encoded by other encodings. Can't we consider non-utf8 text as "legacy"? I don't like that word, but I do think it is the right way to go for text. If you know your text has a diferent encoding, just use 'iconv' to convert it, or a special Haskell library for conversion. That will make life difficult for a few, but make life a lot easier for programers and users. Maurício