iso-8859-1 over UTF8 (was: Re: cString deprecated!)
iso-8859-1 over UTF8 (was: Re: cString deprecated!)
- Subject: iso-8859-1 over UTF8 (was: Re: cString deprecated!)
- From: Allan Odgaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 05:57:58 +0200
On tirsdag, sep 3, 2002, at 01:30 Europe/Copenhagen, Charles Srstka
wrote:
UTF8String is probably the best way to go - to the best of my
knowledge UTF8 is the same as plain ASCII encoding whenever special
characters aren't involved [...]
Yes, every 7 bit character keep its normal encoding.
However most of Europe make heavy use of accented letters and other
stuff which in iso-8859-1 is placed in the range of 160-256.
The entire BSD layer in OS X is also geared toward iso-8859-1, not to
mention that this has been the de-facto standard on all other platforms
than Mac for the last 10-20 years, and I also believe it to be promoted
somewhere as the internet standard (whatever that means).
So whenever I need a "char *" then I always go for iso-8859-1.
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