[ayrx]

It goes both ways. I hate developers that write some code, dump it on GitHub and say "It's open source, you can always fork it." Whatever happened to taking pride in your work and making it work the best it can?

Like other people have pointed out, handling unicode properly does not mean internationalization. Handling utf-8 isn't even difficult if you just keep it in mind.

[deadweight3]

I do take pride in my work, and every piece of software I write handles every use case I need it for explicitly. I take offense that you would imply otherwise knowing absolutely nothing of me and my craft. This isn't about UTF-8, it's about an illogical premise where some very shortsighted individuals would rather have only fully fleshed, fully baked products in open source. This is highly illogical, and would bury ideas potentially unexposed for others to coach and assist with. You aren't the judge of what others find difficult, but that doesn't mean that those that struggle with a concept cannot add tremendous value in other areas.

By the way, it's not utf-8, it's UTF-8. Whatever happened to taking pride in your writing and making it the best it can be?

Everyone has their own criteria for quality, and you can't hope to satisfy everyone. Everyone with even a mildly successful project in open source knows this. Scratch your own itch, make it work, accept any request that meets with your vision, and keep a permissive licence so those that don't can fork. Otherwise, the arrogance being asserted, that you can somehow determine if my contribution is worth of existing, is baffling.

[dkersten]

I agree with you. Anything else just reeks of over-entitlement. I mean, if someone spends their free time to make something useful, that's great! If it doesn't quite meet your standards, that's your problem and you can either: fork it or send a pull request (ie fix it yourself), or pay someone (original author or someone else) to do it.

I'd rather people who build stuff for themselves release it to the rest of us than keep it to themselves.

[Matumio]

You are just being baited. I agree with what you say, but did you really want to burn your energy in this discussion?