From: Sean E. <sea...@gm...> - 2004-08-28 17:25:27
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 10:10:32 -0700, Alexey Marinichev <gai...@ly...> wrote: > If something is valid ASCII, it is valid UTF-8, but it is as much valid > ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-2 or KOI8-R or CP1251 or pretty much anything > single byte. The choice seems pretty arbitrary to me. Gaim requires that all internal strings are UTF-8; it's not arbitrary. Converting to Latin-1 would only then have to convert to UTF-8 afterwards. Converting to UTF-8 off the bat requires half as much code. -s. |