Newbie question about text encoding

[Steven D'Aprano]

Laura Creighton wrote:

> The idea that the whole world loves utf-8 is nonsense.

I don't think anyone says the whole world loves UTF-8. I think people say
that the whole world *ought to* love UTF-8, and that legacy encodings from
the Windows "code-page" days ought to die.


> Most of europe has been using latin1, latin2 etc. before 
> unicode was invented and will, as far as I know, continue to use it.

And this is why people in Greece cannot transfer text files to people in
France without the content changing (ISO-8859-7 vs ISO-8859-1). And why
Russians cannot even swap text files with other Russians (a plethora of
encodings).

:-(



-- 
Steven