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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Add select encoding in Control Center (for CVS HEAD)
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2001-09-27 21:08:26
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On Thursday September 27, 2001 01:21, David Faure wrote:
> > UTF-16 should be supported in Qt 3 as well as ISO-8859-6.
>
> But we decided against using UTF-16 and other multi-byte encodings
> as the global encoding, since many programs (KDE and non-KDE)
> don't support this at all.
> UTF-16 as a font charset is fine, but as the encoding for saving files,
> is too dangerous. It breaks much, far too much.

But if it's not provided as an option, won't that mean that it will never 
be even possible to make it safe?

-- 
Neil Stevens
neil@qualityassistant.com
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill
him with a terrible resolve." - Yamamoto Isoroku

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