- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:00:59 -0400
On 7/24/10 2:49 AM, Brett Zamir wrote: > By the servers/scripting languages. While it is great that the browsers > are involved in the process, I think it would be reasonable to invite > the other stake-holders to join the discussions. If they're willing to talk to us, great. My past experience talking to server developers has been ... suboptimal enough that now I just route around the damage instead, by default. You may be right that in this case that's not a good idea. > Hopefully to be fixed in PHP6 with its promise of full Unicode support... > > Though per http://www.slideshare.net/kfish/unicode-php6-presentation : Right. Not holding my breath yet. ;) > What I meant is to try to get the server systems on board to fix the > issue, including in the long-term. I appreciate you all being admirably > practical champions of present-day compatibility, though I'd hope there > is a vision to make things work better for the future Yep. That vision is "always use UTF-8"; there are just coordination problems getting there.... -Boris
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