Hi All, Marcello is right utf8 is pretty much standard in these days. It should be also the standard used by PG. I do disagree that the other formats are not used anymore. Plenty of websites not using utf8. If the tools at PG do not handle utf8 well, the need to be reworked. regards Keith. Am 25.01.2012 um 21:05 schrieb Marcello Perathoner:
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.)
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