From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2006-06-20T23:33:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On 6/20/06, Timothy Bennett <timothy.s.bennett@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/20/06, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> >
> >
> > If I read pieces of text from web pages they can be in different
> > encodings. I do not see any reason why such pieces of text could not
> > be automatically concatenated as long as they are all subset of
> > unicode.
>
>
> Having different encodings on one web page is a good way to make sure that
> the page won't display correctly, since all the browsers I know of display
> all text on a page using just one encoding.  Granted, if the encoding is a
> subset of unicode, it may still manage to work out, but personally I keep
> running in to pages that display some of the characters as garbage no matter
> what encoding I instruct my browser to use.  So, no, I don't think it should
> be valid to concatenate strings with different encodings.

No, I meant that the strings are, of course, converted to a common
encoding such as utf-8 before they are concatenated.
The point is that you do not have to care in which encoding you
obtained the pieces and convert them manually to a common encoding if
the string class can do it automatically for you.

Thanks

Michal