The existence of the byte sucks.
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I could never be your woman
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$B:9=P?M(B: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl>;
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$B7oL>(B: Re: PDUTR #26 posted
>Two things I forgot to add:
>
>Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:52:04 -0700, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> pisze:
>
>>>IMHO Unicode would have been a better standard if UTF-16
>>>hadn't existed.
>>
>> Decidedly not. In fact, Unicode would not be widely implemented today.
>
>It's much simpler to migrate from byte encodings to UTF-8 than to
>UTF-16, including both internal processing and external formats.
>
>> Unicode limited to UTF-8 and UTF-32 would be a lot less attractive
>> and you would not have seen it implemented in Windows, Office
>> and other high volume platforms as early and as widespread as it
>> has been.
>
>They should have used UTF-8 in files and either UTF-8 or UTF-32 in API.
>
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