Re: [Gnome-print] Re: [jody: [ynakai@redhat.com: Re: Gnumeric bug 15607]]

[John Stracke <francis thibault org>]

Christopher James Lahey wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Yukihiro Nakai wrote:
> 
>> Unicode(in the future) is good, but utf-8 is very EVIL. Japanese,
>> Chinese and Taiwanese(Chinese in Taiwan) use many same characters in
>> different glyphs. But utf-8 ignores that.
> 
I don't think this is true.  UTF-8 is simply an encoding of Unicode, a 
1-1 mapping.  Anything that can be represented in Unicode will be 
represented faithfully in UTF-8.  If you're having trouble with UTF-8, 
it's a problem with Unicode, and no different representation will help.

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