2 Sep
2009
2 Sep
'09
2:07 a.m.
Judah Jacobson wrote:
Duncan Coutts wrote:
Note that it is becoming increasingly rare for people to use non-UTF-8 locales anywhere in the world, and even then it's likely ignored by many UIs. So I'm inclined against cluttering the API with convenience functions for other encodings, as Johan is suggesting.
I agree that this would make the API much simpler; but I'm wary of broad statements like the above. My (very vague) impression was that many Japanese users, for example, still use non-Unicode encodings.
Indeed, non-Unicode encodings are still commonplace in Japan (and, last I checked, China). FWIW. -- Live well, ~wren