Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 09:45:33 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters Message-ID: <CAHhngE2bbMBK5bgsn24yUuPLDnH4fprgmjJOzCKYMHrs7qo7cg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201111090504.pA954Pod066887@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <20111108205948.54daef43@cox.net> <201111090504.pA954Pod066887@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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It's worth noting, too, that most of the non-Unicode encoding systems predate the Internet. When computers weren't really talking to each other, there was no real emphasis on interoperability, and every OS tended to come up with their own way of encoding foreign languages. Languages like French, German, and English generally have it easy -- almost everything ended up being Latin1 (aka ISO 8859-1). For other languages it can be much more complicated. There are at least three commonly used encoding systems for Chinese. Unicode is gradually winning, but you'll still find, for example, a lot of Chinese documents in GB2312 and Big5.
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