mingw-w64 proposed changes to the triplet

[H. Peter Anvin]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> All this is because they consider UTF-8 to be "not invented here" and are
> trying to change everything to use UTF-16 at the expense of backwards
> compatibility and standards rather than just changing their default system
> codepage to UTF-8 as everyone else (GNU/Linux, OS X etc.) did (and yes,
> they do have support for variable-length system codepages already, the
> Asian versions use that, they just don't want to use it for UTF-8).
> 

I think it's more than that.  They're deeply (and I mean *deeply*) in
denial that UTF-16 isn't a 16-bit fixed-length character set, because
they set up *so much* around it.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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