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Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:02:45 +0900 |
Juanma Barranquero writes:
> On Dec 3, 2007 11:59 AM, Karl Fogel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > It would be more helpful if, instead of saying what encoding *not* to
> > use, you (or someone) would say what encoding *to* use, and why :-).
>
> Yes.
Use UTF-8 in NFD form. A protocol for handling the gaiji problem
(characters not encoded by whatever system your application uses) will
have to be developed anyway, and you can use that to handle all the
problems Eli brings up that have to do with "what Mule code can do
that Unicode can't". There are other problems of ambiguity in Unicode
itself (see Unicode TR#31), but since Mule code can (at least
theoretically) represent all Unicode code points, Mule code has them
too.
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, David Reitter, 2007/12/02
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Karl Fogel, 2007/12/02
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, David Reitter, 2007/12/02
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/03
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Karl Fogel, 2007/12/03
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/03
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Karl Fogel, 2007/12/04
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/04
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/12/04
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/04
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Stefan Monnier, 2007/12/04
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/04
- Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/12/05