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ISO 2022 isn't beautiful solution like UTF-8 self sync encoding. Backward compatibility is also great (so called UTF FSS). It was designed by smart Plan9 people
by fomine3 4y ago
ISO 2022 isn't beautiful solution like UTF-8 self sync encoding. Backward compatibility is also great (so called UTF FSS). It was designed by smart Plan9 people.
- manholio 4y agoIf Ken and Pike could design it in an afternoon, I'm sure even a standards committee could have done it in less than 5 years or so, the ideas are straight forward. I would also argue that the fast sync with at most one character consumed is a good feature but not essential for adoption. Any byte-oriented Unicode packing scheme that can gracefully consume ASCII is better than multibyte, codepages sent out-of-band etc. etc.