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Am I at risk?

Of course not.

Joel's article went on and on making it seem as though there was nothing but utter chaos before Unicode, then finally, towards the end, he mentions 8 bit ISO Latin-1.

Latin-1 is a truly monumental achievement. This character set contains all of the letters from the Latin alphabet and then some. Using this one, 8 bit character set we can represent the vast majority of the languages of North America, South America, and Europe.

If someone in China or the United Arab Emirates tries to use your application full of English dialogs and the dialogs all show up as question marks or whatever, how exactly does Unicode make your program any more usable? OK, now they'll show up as English. Fine. But can the user even read English?

In reply to Re: Programmers, script languages, and Unicode by William G. Davis
in thread Programmers, script languages, and Unicode by dbwiz

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