Why do the Japs still use Shift-JIS? Why haven't they moved onto UTF-8 like the rest of the world?
>>7925935Who are you quoting?
>>7925935If by 'yurop' you mean 'most of the Web', then sure. I wasn't aware most of the Web was hosted in Europe though.
Because they're barbarians. Also they have several other barely compatible encodings like EUC-JP to make things even worse.
>>7925975No point, he thinks he's saving /jp/.
>>7926002Do you know how fun it is to write that modern software so that it works no matter what retarded shit the user throws at it? Not very.
>>7926048This.It's a pain in the cock when you have to deal with, say, 2-byte chars when you expect 1-byte chars.
Why do the Amerikkkans still use ASCII? Why haven't they moved on to UTF-8 like the rest of- Oh right!They created the UTF-8 standard in a way, that makes ASCII automatically UTF-8 conform.
>>7926000From WHAT?What has green text done to hurt ANYTHING?
There's already a thread about it. >>>/prog/1178989647
>>7926048Not first-hand, but from what I understand it's just a matter of using modern libraries.Also, I'd like to know why my previous post was deleted, because it certainly wasn't done by me.