[Javascript] Re: Charset (sort-of OFF_TOPIC for js)

[David Dorward]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:32:58AM -0400, tedd wrote:
> The point is that I  (perhaps I'm showing my ignorance here) don't 
> know of any characters in the Unicode dB that can't be shown by UTF-8 
> -- so what's the point of other charset's? Are they for legacy 
> concerns?

There were there first. Lots of software still uses them. I believe
that there are issues with Unicode and some eastern languages.

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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk