On 08/12/2019 20.09, Mayayana wrote:
"Carlos E.R." wrote

|
| Another problem is that UTF-8 may or may not have a
| BOM.
|
| What is a BOM? Google says "Bill of materials".
|
| Another source says "Short for byte order mark, BOM is another name for
| the Unicode character at the beginning of a file indicating if it's
| UTF-16 or UTF-32."
|
Yes, byte order mark. Though I'm not certain that's
what it's called in UTF-8. It is in 16-bit because it could
be either high or low endian. Notepad prepends EF BB BF.

| To me it seems that the real motive is political correctness.
| Inclusiveness. For us English speakers that's not a reason
| to use it.
|
| You are not the only people on Earth, you know. It is just polite to
| consider our existence.
|
Yes, but here we are, speaking English. If you and
I were having coffee together I'd try to be considerate.
I'd even enjoy trying to resurrect my 4 years of Spanish.
I enjoy Spanish. It's more sensual than English. More
curvaceous and less thorny. I feel more alive with Spanish.
English is good for saying things like "particular mathematical
anomaly". Technically proficient but not so aestheticly
appealing.

But on my own computer
there's no reason to have non-ASCII files. ASCII is
English. If you had invented computers then ASCII would
probably be Spanish, and I'd have to learn Spanish in
order to do programming. Then my computer would
be full of Spanish ANSI files. But if I change my ASCII to
UTF-8 I'm just adding lots of complications for no reason.
Similarly, if a webpage is in English only then there's no
sense mucking it up with a few token UTF-8 characters.

I prefer to have my texts in an international modern standard, so that
no matter if viewed in France, Spain, USA or China, they will be viewed
correctly.

You can see that my post was sent in utf-8 (not my personal doing), and
you had no issue reading it and answering :-) although I'm unsure what
your client used.



| Even Windows default to unicode.
|

Yes, but only internally. I don't have any unicode files,
unless you count the mess that makes up a DOC file.
With English, again, it doesn't matter whether it's unicode.
Only the first byte matters, and that's ASCII-conforming.
With foreign languages it's usually ANSI. So unicode was
brought in to prepare for the future, but it was never
really relevant. And now it's been obsoleted by UTF-8,
which is much less disruptive and much more functional.

I read part of the specs for exFAT recently and it uses unicode.


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Cheers, Carlos.