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From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>
Cc: "Jamie Lokier" <jamie@shareable.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: UTF-8 filenames
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:10:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402230710.12549.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008d01c3f99c$9033e3c0$34ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60>

On Monday 23 February 2004 00.35, Norman Diamond wrote:
> Of course.  Perhaps my use of reductio al absurdum was unclear.  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 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. 

-- robin

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-23  6:10 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 [this message]
2004-02-23 11:34       ` Norman Diamond
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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