Re: [tlug] The 11th Commandment

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Edward Middleton wrote:
> Josh Glover wrote:
> > > Josh Glover wrote:
> > > > "XI: Thou shalt grok Unicode!"
>>
> > But part of grokking Unicode is knowing to store your data in UTF-8
> > internally, and encode to some other crazy charset as late as possible
> > in the output process. Which we do. :)
>
> Sounds a lot like getting religious about Unicode then not using it in
> the real world ;)

Yes I was just trying to Jerk your chain.  That being said, this is a 
reason I don't try to get too religious about Unicode.  For all its 
goodness it isn't supported as universally at the client end as the 
local encodings, in any given language.  Which means you end up being 
forced to choose between good standards or good client support.

This[1] is the post Josh was referring to.

Edward

1. http://tlug.jp/ML/0707/msg01264.html