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Subject: Re: Gnus: UTF-8 and compatibility with other MUAs
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Hi Simon,


Just two additional thoughts, I agree with most of what you said
otherwise.

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> But it doesn't solve the problem. 'cmp' still says the files are
> different.  UTF-8 had a similar problem (overlong encodings) but
> that has been fixed, UTF-16 and UTF-32 can't be.

Actually UTF-8 still has that problem with composed vs. decomposed
characters.  There is no perfect system AFAIK.

> If normal computers was 16 bit, I could understand the trade-off,

Depends of what you call "normal computers."  MS Windows and Apple's
Mac OS X both use UTF-16 for APIs and internal implmentation.


benny