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On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:55:45 -0300, "Timothy W. Cook" <timothywayne.cook@gmail.com> wrote: >My questions is; Is there a use case or any >good reason to use anything but UTF-8? Two of them. One is for CHM (MS HTML Help), which requires MS Code Page encoding and does not work with Unicode at all (though the topics will appear to display correctly, the search won't work). The other is more marginal; for CJK Asian languages, UTF-16 (or the DBCS encoding) is more compact, 2 octets vs. 3 for most characters. Nonetheless, we use UTF-8 internally, and only convert to another encoding when required at the last possible point. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy@omsys.com> http://mif2go.com/
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