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Is UTF8 UCenter worse than its GBK/BIG5 peers?

Friday, February 5th, 2010

In the installation document of Comsenz’ UCenter (http://faq.comsenz.com/userguide/uchome/uc_install.html), it is said:

“在这里要说明一下:我们提供了 4 种不同的编码。包括 GBK 简体中文版(推荐)、UTF-8 简体中文版、BIG5 繁体中文版(推荐)、UTF-8 繁体中文版,请自己的需求选择相应版本的论坛程序下载。”

It means the author recommends installing the package using GBK/BIG5 encoding instead of the UTF8 one.  It confuses me as I thought the UTF8 version is be more appropriate for general use.  I have friends writing in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, so UTF8 is a requirement for me.  To confirm whether UTF8 version is worse than its GBK/BIG5 peers, I download all packages and diff them.  The result is comforting, as the only output is of the following type: Continue Reading…