pingu 2 wrote:
> Now I’m a bit curious here.
> You say (and I have heard that several times before):> …unless you were Chinese, or various other nationalities, and then
>> the ISO 8859 situation was a nightmare. So the world got together and
>> made ISO 10646 (incl UTF-8). And it’s big and it’s complicated and it’s
>> a pain. But it does work. And more importantly, it’s the way the whole
>> world is going.
> But even Windows 7 use ISO-8859 as default, not UTF-8. And I do believe
> a big majority of the Chinese people also use Windows - most people all
> around the world do?
> So obviously, the whole world is not going the UTF-8 way! If it did
> the problem would be solved, but for now we’re stuck with different
> systems using different encoding.
I don’t believe that is correct. I haven’t used Windows for 10 years
now, but what I read on Microsoft sites says that Windows uses Unicode,
as do modern applicatios. The only things that don’t are some legacy
applications. Wikipedia says:
“The best known such system is Windows NT (and its descendants, Windows
2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7), which uses UTF-16 as the
sole internal character encoding.”