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The article has a whole paragraph dedicated to your question
by SigmundA 7y ago
The article has a whole paragraph dedicated to your question
- happytoexplain 7y agoThe article specifies why they didn't convert everything to UTF-8 - not how they chose the encoding for that subset of lower code points.
- SigmundA 7y agoRead the section it describes exactly why they choose Latin-1, it literally answers the question asked in detail...
- happytoexplain 7y agoAh, you're right, though the first bullet point really threw me off: >Gecko is huge and it uses TwoByte strings in most places. Converting all of Gecko to use UTF8 strings is a much bigger project and has its own risks. But I guess they mean converting it all to support UTF-8 under the described circumstances - not just converting it all to UTF-8.