Why aren't all websites and email systems in *Unicode* (UTF) encoding already? It would save so much trouble..

2006-06-22 6:34 pm
Yes, why not?

Why persist with all those regional encodings when there *is* one encoding that works for (almost) all languages? Especially when most of the regional encodings are only capable of displaying one non-Roman language...

And regional encodings in E-MAIL systems are the *most* *annoying* *things* *ever*!

Have you ever tried to send a Chinese or Japanese or Russian e-mail to someone who's not in the same country?

GRRR... when I send Chinese e-mails to my friends on Mainland China or in Japan, all the characters are messed up! That's because we use BIG5 encoding here in Taiwan but they use GB in the PRC and Shift-JIS in Japan! It's soooo annoying!

Shouldn't we just all adopt Unicode and be one big, happy multilingual family...

回答 (3)

2006-06-22 6:42 pm
✔ 最佳答案
Some encoding systems use 16 bit long characters such as in chinese or japanes. you can not always use UTF as it presumes each character is a byte long or 8 bits
2016-10-31 7:27 pm
in case you flow to View-Encoding out of your IE browser what's chosen once you first open IE? whether it truly is vehicle-go with then attempt changing it the Unicode and restarting the browser.
2006-06-22 6:57 pm
that's because of the volume of datas ,sth programming a low volumed website is so important that we have to omit some of the futures and let the users to manually set up those settings!


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