25 Jan
2012
25 Jan
'12
8:05 p.m.
On 01/25/2012 08:35 PM, Al Haines wrote:
As Roger mentions, curly quotes and oe-ligatures are insufficient reason for creating a UTF8 file.
As I already said I strongly disagree. You don't need no `reason´ to create an utf8 file. It's the standard encoding all over the world. It is the one file you should create first. You need a reason to create those other encodings that nobody uses any more. But what that reason could be is beyond me. I'd like to hear one, *only one*, good argument in favour of having those other encodings around. (The argument: "Because our tools are too decrepit to handle unicode." is not a good argument.) -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org