Re: Unicode, and miscellaneous gibberish

Andy Bakun (abakun@scinc.com)
Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:40:09 -0500


On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 11:30:31 -0700 (PDT), Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
wrote:

>One of the problems with unicode is it encourages people to do _really
>stupid_ things. Like what's happening with the FTP-WG. Dumb europeans
>making idiotic assumptions about asian encodings. "If we force everything
>to assume Unicode, then asian languages will only be mis-decoded 10% of
>the time. So there's no problem."

I remember reading about this example:

...even 99.99% accuracy is not enough... if 1 out of every 10,000 W's are
changed to S's, you'll have few problems with a Mr Woodword's name being
changed to Mr Soodword, but you could have a lawsuit on your hand if the W
in Mr. Whitman's name is changed to an S.