Re: Greek chars encoded twice -- why?

From: Apostolos Syropoulos (ijdt.editor@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 18 2010 - 11:14:58 CST

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2010/2/18 Clark S. Cox III <clarkcox3@me.com>

>
>
> Yes, it is absolutely necessary. Converting from a legacy encoding to
> Unicode and back should be a lossless operation. How else would interchange
> between legacy systems, and Unicode systems work?
>

That's a problem that should concern those who still use legacy systems. In
addition, today to the best of my knowledge no one
is using 8bit Greek encodings. Finally, just because there are some people
using legacy systems, should we continue
supporting something that is wrong?

A.S.

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