Re: UTF8

[Simon Josefsson <jas%extundo.com@localhost>]

Derek Fawcus <dfawcus%cisco.com@localhost> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:13:55PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
>> What I think we do have consensus on, even if only consensus by apathy,
>> is that this issue can be ignored; I appear to be the only person the
>> least bit concerned about it.
>
> I guess.  I happen to agree with your position to a large extent,  in
> that I use unix systems which are using 8859-1 (from my POV).
>
> But then since I happen to really only use the ASCII compatible
> part, if it's an octet string or UTF-8 becomes irrelevant. I don't
> have any characters outside the ASCII range in usernames or
> passwords.

Perhaps it would be useful to consider what problems you would have
interacting with EBCDIC systems, to imagine what the situation is for
Latin-1 or Unicode users.  ASCII isn't the only 7-bit encoding.

Regards,
Simon