- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:30:35 +0200
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: >> >> Regarding your "(and 16)" remark, considering my personal happiness at >> work, I'd prioritize the eradication of UTF-16 as an interchange >> encoding much higher than eradicating ASCII-based non-UTF-8 encodings >> that all major browsers support. I think suggesting a solution to the >> encoding problem while implying that UTF-16 is not a problem isn't >> particularly appropriate. :-) ... > I don't think I'd call it a bigger problem, though, since it's comparatively > (even vanishingly) rare, where untagged legacy encodings are a widespread > problem that gets worse every day we can't think of a way to curtail it. >From implementation perspective, UTF-16 has its own class of bugs than are unlike other encoding-related bugs and fixing those bugs is particularly annoying because you know that UTF-16 is so rare that you know the fix has little actual utility. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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