Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:39:41 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1?? Message-ID: <20080909223941.GC65291@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080909221608.GB51272@thought.org> References: <20080909043503.GA21663@thought.org> <20080909165456.GA56556@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20080909121430.M12798@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <20080909221608.GB51272@thought.org>
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--WfZ7S8PLGjBY9Voh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Because it is a hiddeous waste for most readers and writers of > > English and other European languages. > I also argured that utf-8 was a waste of a whole byte per char > for most of us. That's not true. UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding. It is backwards compatible with ASCII, i.e. ascii characters are one byte in UTF-8 as well. Are you thinking about UTF-16? Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --WfZ7S8PLGjBY9Voh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjG+y0ACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWBQgCfWddo2uWEYEhAi8H34PsmkV01 RpwAn2MBfTf8gEVQX+K6WysEinzKHCm2 =tiNd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WfZ7S8PLGjBY9Voh--
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