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From: "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>
To: "Robin Rosenberg" <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Cc: "Jamie Lokier" <jamie@shareable.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: UTF-8 filenames
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:34:57 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <015d01c3fa01$32c15c30$34ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200402230710.12549.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com

Robin Rosenberg replied to me:

> > Of course.  Perhaps my use of reductio al absurdum was unclear.

Actually Mark Hahn got me on that, it should be ad, but I get too many ads
already.  Now reminiscing about the days before I posted to LKML, because my
inbox was less than 75% spams in those days.

> > I was trying to show that UTF-8, despite its sanity, is not universally
> > agreeable.  The actual reason is because it came late to the scene
> > (around 20 years ago) and it is not backwards compatible.
>
> Even later, it's from 1992 I believe

Oh, then it was even later to the scene than I thought.

> and a standard even later. That is long after we went from national
> variants of ASCII to ISO-Latin-1. If I recall it correctly it was the
> years around 1987 that we started having multiple encodings fo text.

SJIS and EUC both existed before 1987.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-23 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-22 12:30 UTF-8 filenames Norman Diamond
2004-02-22 20:45 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-22 23:35   ` Norman Diamond
2004-02-23  6:10     ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-23 11:34       ` Norman Diamond [this message]
2004-02-23 12:15         ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-23 12:00     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-23 23:42       ` Norman Diamond
2004-02-24  0:02         ` Jamie Lokier

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