[Foundation-l] A license for the Ultimate Wiktionary

[Robin Shannon]

Ok, having had a look on wikipedia, and not finding anything, i
withdraw this claim,  and claim amnesia.
Sorry.

paz y amor,
-rjs

2005/5/21, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com>:
> Robin Shannon wrote:
> > Just taking this off-topic a little. I just read RFC2229 (DICT), and
> > it states that it uses UTF-8. I thought thier were various problems
> > with using UTF-8, regarding asian languages, but i could be wrong...
> 
> Such as...?
> 
> We're already using UTF-8 for everything except a few of the older
> European-language Wikipedias which are on an 8-bit ISO 8859 encoding,
> and those will be finally converted when we upgrade to 1.5.
> 
> While UTF-8 is somewhat less space efficient in that range than some
> alternatives, most alternatives are less convenient for many purposes.
> Its coverage is equal to any other Unicode data encoding, and far easier
> to work with for multilingual text than anything that's not Unicode.

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