From: Tim Bray <tbray@...>
Date: 2006-06-18T13:55:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On Jun 17, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> Why? What if the library that I'm interfacing with requires EUC-JP?
> Sorry, but Unicode is *not necessarily* the right answer.

Indeed it's not, but this argument escapes me.  If you try feed that  
library an Arabic string, something will break, because EUC-JP can't  
represent Arabic.  So what?  Whatever character set(s) you  
standardize on, there is going to be existing software that won't be  
able to handle all of it... I'm just not following your argument.

  -Tim