Re: What "Unicode support" really means

On 5 Mar 2014, at 08:29, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > The first question that still has not been answered is whether there is a general consensus > that the whole core should cleanly support UTF-8 or be restricted to a single byte subset? > Don't mix 'locale' up with this! We need an acceptable 'global' set of > rules which the core works to, for which a 'single byte locale' MAY be the preferred > option for everyone? Yes, the entire core should and must support Unicode. Whether that be UTF-8 is a different question, since we could also use UTF-32, for example. The reason the core needs to support Unicode is that otherwise much of the core becomes useless on the modern web. ASCII isn’t good enough even for English these days. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/