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[Charles Yeomans]

On Mar 11, 2004, at 11:01 AM, jda wrote:

>> On Mar 10, 2004, at 6:18 PM, jda wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>>>  The majority of my Unicode users are using Hebrew, Arabic, and 
>>>>> plain
>>>>>  old accented "European" characters! That includes 
>>>>> American/European
>>>>>  users. Japan is at most 10% of the market that needs Unicode. We 
>>>>> need
>>>>>  unicode for "the rest of us!!!!!!!!
>>>>
>>>> Hogwash. The second largest, single language software market in the 
>>>> world is
>>>> Japan. You may not be addressing the needs of that market in your 
>>>> own
>>>> products, but that doesn't reflect the software market in general. 
>>>> UTF-16
>>>> doesn't take care of "the rest of us", it takes care of all of us.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm getting this as a digest (hm, I thought I asked for single email 
>>> mode. Oh well) so I'm late to respond.
>>>
>>> Hogwash yourself, Lynn :P. Who cares if it's the second largest 
>>> single language market. It pales next to US + Europe. And UTF-8 
>>> takes care of all of us, too. I have no idea what you even mean by 
>>> that statement -- at face value it is simply wrong.
>>>
>>
>> Apple itself uses UTF-16 in Carbon; are they wrong as well?
>>
>
> I don't get your point. Lynn implied that UTF-8 wasn't as good as 
> UTF-16 at handling Japanese. That is wrong.
>
I suppose I don't get the point of the entire discussion. It appears to 
me that UTF-16 is a better choice than UTF-8 for Valentina.

Charles Yeomans