Unicode and APIs

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:39:07PM -0500, John Hascall wrote:
> > The problem here is not so much the protocol, but the operating systems
> > on which the protocol is being used *AND* the bad habits (just-use-8)
> > that have been bred over the years.
> 
> Right.  That's the hard part, and the only way to do it may
> be with a carrot (new features and what not) along with the
> stick (you can't do some of the old bad things any more, they
> aren't in this API).

Well, good luck with that stick :)

I think the rest of us will work on not kicking our customers for doing
things that we made so easy for them to do :)