On 13 Feb 2021 at 21:05:47 GMT, Ahem A Rivet's Shot 
wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:42:37 -0500
> "Mayayana"  wrote:
>
>>    So all I was saying was that UTF-8 was far easier than
>>  any other approach, using "wide characters", when it came
>>  time to fully support all languages under one system. Even now
>>  I'm not sure how much it's really used.
>
>  Anyone who has to support multiple languages tends to use unicode
> internally for the sake of sanity (I was for a while internationalisation
> specialist (among other hats) on the Yahoo! front page team). We had loads
> of fun with external feeds claiming to be ISO8859-1 and sending Win-1252 -
> they're almost but not quite the same.

I convert everything to UTF-8. Windows tends to lie about which code-page it's
using, anyway.

--
Tim

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