Message-Id: <200701080140.l081e8Tc024779@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
       Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) 
In-Reply-To: Message from Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> 
   of "Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:17:30 -0000." <20070107191730.GD21133@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> 
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:40:08 -0300
From: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

[...]

> All that UTF-8 has done is added to the "which charset is this data"
> problem rather than actually solving any proper real life problem.

It solves real-world problems, the pain is that it is not (yet) universally
used. The charset problems today are much more visible today than, say, 15
years back, that is all.
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