On 29/08/2014 4:10 AM, "John C Klensin" <john+w3c@jck.com> wrote: > > The one solace here and the one I hope all involved can agree on > (or have already) is that, with the exception of writing systems > whose scripts have not yet been encoded in Unicode, everyone > ought to be moving away from historical encodings and toward > UTF-8 as soon as possible. That is the real solution to the > problem of different definitions and the issues they can cause: > just move forward to Standard UTF-8 to get away from them and > consider the present mess as added incentive. > Unfortunately, that ship has already sailed. UTF-8 already suffers from the same problem. The term some of us use for it is pseudo-Unicode. For some languages, a sizeable amount of content is in this category. To add to the problem some handset (mobile/cell phone) and tablet manufacturers have baked in pseudo-Unicode for specific languages. As the expression goes, that ship has already sailed. Andrew
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