Hi Junio, On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > ... which was broken in non-US locales (most notably in a Japanese setup; > > apparently there _still_ are developers who did not yet move away from a > > Japanese locale... at least on Windows). > > I think the above was a reference to a tangential comment I made in > a response to Peff. > > Oh, I do not expect Japanese Windows users would "move away from" > Japanese locale, ever. > > I do however know that an app that supports only legacy encoding is > frowned upon these days. They still use and will keep using > Japanese menus and messages, and they still write their documents in > Japanese and not in US English. > > But they store their Japenese documents encoded in UTF-8 on their > system that is in Japanese locale. > > There are two models of gadgets I am interested in getting, between > which one of them that is slightly older supports UTF-8 and MS-Kanji > (aka Shift-JIS) while the latest model only supports MS-Kanji. The > list price of them are comparable (actually, the latest one lists a > bit more), but the latest model is deeply discounted while the other > one with UTF-8 is not as much. At shopping sites, user reviews > often mention "I've migrated my text to UTF-8 already and going back > to Shift JIS in this year is too cumbersome, so I'll skip this > latest model". > > I am hoping a software update might happen, and will pull the > trigger once the latest one starts supporting UTF-8 ;-) Thank you for that interesting note. Ciao, Dscho
