Adam Olsen wrote: > A half-broken setup is still a broken setup. Eventually you have to > tell people to stop screwing around and pick one encoding. > But it's not a broken setup. It's the way the world is because people share things with each other. > I doubt that UTF-16 is used very much (other than on windows). I > haven't found any statistics on what distros use, but did find this > one of the web itself: > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html > UTF-16 is popular in Asian locales for the same reason that shift-js and big-5 are hanging in there. utf-8 takes many more bytes to encode Asian Unicode characters than utf-16. -Toshio -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20081211/8314dd81/attachment.pgp>
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