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What a bad, hyperbolic take. UTF-8 can encode the entire Unicode space. All you need is up-to-date libraries and fonts to display the codepoints correctly. It i
by okanat 3y ago
What a bad, hyperbolic take. UTF-8 can encode the entire Unicode space. All you need is up-to-date libraries and fonts to display the codepoints correctly. It is backwards compatible forever. So requiring UTF-8 allows Japanese to represent their writing method exactly how it is and keep the scheme for a very long time with room to improve.
- Manabu-eo 3y agoJapanese text in uft-8 is frequently rendered with the Chinese version of the kanji due to han unification, not "representing their writing method exactly". Shift-JIS encoding comunicates that the text is in Japanese via the encoding facilitating the correct font to be selected. And it indeed facilitates, as in practice it works better than encoding in utf-8 that lacks an in-band way to communicate that, and out-of-band often fails/is ignored/doesn't exist.