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Re: Chinese characters support
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: Chinese characters support |
Date: |
Wed, 14 May 2003 18:27:28 +0200 |
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Lee Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> If you want to test UTF-8 (Why not UTF-16? People who really use
> computers for Far East languages (CJK) would have to waste 50% disk
> space if they use UTF-8 to store their text files. UTF-16 is more
> space efficient.), do suggest including a UTF-8 test file. (Add a
> line in HELLO to instruct anyone how to open the UTF-8 test file,
> favourably with hot-key bindings.) And why stop there? Also have
> UTF-16 and UTF-7 test files. UTF-8 is simply NOT the magic panacea.
> It sucks when you have a file full of Chinese characters, for
> instance. The 3-byte per Chinese character "feature" of UTF-8 sucks.
Why not include UTF-8 characters in the HELLO file? I gather that
iso-2022 is general enough to also allow using UTF-8 as one of the
encodings it supports.
But I'm not an expert.
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