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| From | "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.php |
| Subject | Re: UTF-8 charset [OT] |
| Date | 2013-03-21 15:00 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <slrnkkmpm5.m9f.hellsop@nibelheim.ninehells.com> (permalink) |
| References | (6 earlier) <XnsA189C3E70FCE8dougmilmaccom@78.46.70.116> <ar015sF2nu9U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> <1l036uh.tti447p1ww4uN%adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> <ar0updF9e1oU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> <1l03h7x.mjrqu3icv6x2N%adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> |
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:22:30 +0000, Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
> M. Strobel <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> wrote:
>> [Page 3]
>> o the default character set is changed from US-ASCII [ANSI1986] to
>> UTF-8 [RFC3629] (note that US-ASCII is a subset of UTF-8);
>>
>> I am so fed up with limited character sets like ISO-8859 or the Win encoding a
>> programmer/sysadmin has to care about.
>
> A lot depends on the readership you are aiming at. If you are writing
> for just one person or a target audience who can all read your preferred
> character set, there is no reason not to use it. If you are writing for
> a larger audience and do not want to exclude some potential readers,
> then you may have to limit your choice. If you are writing comercially,
> you cannot afford to upset or alienate a single customer.
>
> As a general rule, the larger the readership, the greater the
> constraints which fall upon the writer. A lot of time and extra work
> (and possibly frustration) on the part of one writer will save a much
> greater amount of time wasted in total by hundreds of frustrated
> readers.
OTOH, curly-quotes (which IIRC were the issue here) add little, if
anything, to clarity for any language, and certainly have no place in
PHP coding.
--
83. If I'm eating dinner with the hero, put poison in his goblet, then
have to leave the table for any reason, I will order new drinks for
both of us instead of trying to decide whether or not to switch
with him. --Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord
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mysql dynamic binding and pass-by-ref deprecated oldyork90 <oldyork90@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-19 20:49 -0700
Re: mysql dynamic binding and pass-by-ref deprecated Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-20 06:42 -0400
Re: mysql dynamic binding and pass-by-ref deprecated oldyork90 <oldyork90@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-20 07:09 -0700
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Re: mysql dynamic binding and pass-by-ref deprecated The Cat in the Hat <doctor@suess.com> - 2013-03-20 21:58 +0000
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Re: UTF-8 charset (was: mysql dynamic binding and pass-by-ref deprecated) The Cat in the Hat <doctor@suess.com> - 2013-03-20 23:13 +0000
Re: UTF-8 charset The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-20 23:31 +0000
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Re: UTF-8 charset adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) - 2013-03-21 14:31 +0000
Re: UTF-8 charset The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-21 16:22 +0000
Re: UTF-8 charset "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-21 18:05 +0100
Re: UTF-8 charset Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-22 01:17 +0100
Re: UTF-8 charset Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-03-22 01:55 +0100
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Re: UTF-8 charset "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-22 09:46 +0100
Re: UTF-8 charset "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-21 18:36 +0100
Re: UTF-8 charset [OT] adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) - 2013-03-21 18:22 +0000
Re: UTF-8 charset [OT] "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-03-21 15:00 -0500
Re: UTF-8 charset [OT] Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-22 01:47 +0100
Re: UTF-8 charset The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-20 23:20 +0000
Re: UTF-8 charset Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-03-20 16:39 -0700
Re: mysql dynamic binding and pass-by-ref deprecated Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-20 23:29 -0400
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Re: mysql dynamic binding and pass-by-ref deprecated oldyork90 <oldyork90@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-21 06:43 -0700
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