Unicode vs. Western Encoding

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07-05-2004, 08:45 PM	#1
jrdioko Member Registered: Oct 2002 Distribution: Debian 6.0.2 (squeeze) Posts: 944 Rep:	Unicode vs. Western Encoding I've been looking into how to display and type international characters on this computer running Linux, and I keep seeing Unicode mentioned. I did some research on Unicode, and now I'm a little confused. It seems like UTF-8 is so wonderful and solves all encoding problems, so why does anyone still use ISO-8859-1 and why is it the default on so many programs? I guess I want to know... does Unicode have any disadvantages (major or minor), and what are they? Thanks!

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