Aargh

[venta]

OK, so html isn't usually the first area of legislation you consider when you take over the world, but:

When I am dictator, every character set will have exactly one encoding. Forget your latin1, latin2, latin3. There will be latin, and you will like it.

Furthermore, each encoding will have exactly one name. Anyone who calls an encoding by a non-standard name will be sneered at, and will not be pandered to by the poor sods who have to put encoding support into browsers.

Not that I'm bitter today, you understand :)

Comments

[neilh.livejournal.com]

You got my vote.

While you're at it, could you get rid of homoglyphs and multiple representations of identical characters. And make everyone standardise on a single multibyte representation mechanism. And make codepages a things of the past. And...

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Oh, we (ie. the OED) actually need glyphs that unicode doesn't support. Can't tell you off-hand what they are, but I've got the general impression of "Middle English".