TimS  wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, as I said earlier, UTF-8 now in general just works with no hassle
at all.

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