From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 08:37:02 CST
In <ylheb4rkqq.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>Whether or not introducing UTF-8 is backwardly compatible with fairly
>graceful degredation seems to be one of the points of debate.
Indeed so. The degradation within the main European languages should be
tolerable.
Within Chinese OTOH it might be catastrophic, which is why they will
liklely continue as they do. But see my earlier article for how even they
could be helped.
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