File names was Re: Warning: Large Babel translation
Yoshiki Ohshima
Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Sun Nov 16 23:16:06 UTC 2003
Hannes,
> > Well, most of the non-English, non-Unicode encodings are more or
> > less compatible with ASCII^^;
>
> Hoping the following clarifies a point...
Well, I shouldn't have written the previous one because I don't
disagree with your point; UTF-8 might become the "ASCII" of the 21st
century.
> UTF-8 is compatible not only on the encoding level (assignment of code
> numbers), but as well on the physical level (sequence of bytes).
> Every ASCII string can be considered UTF-8 encoded already.
Of course, this statement is also true for 'most of the non-English,
non-Unicode' encodings. So, what I wanted to say was that this
statement and the one you wrote don't mean too much.
-- Yoshiki
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