Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:09:11 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts |
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Bodo Eggert wrote: > > What's supposed to happen if you concatenate a script from your french > user and from your russian user, both using localized text, into one file? > Unless you can guarantee every editor to correctly handle this case, all > usage of 8-bit-characters should be disabled - NOT! >
Actually, it's quite easy to avoid problems by using UTF-8 consistently. The 8-bit characters are oddballs and need to be treated specially, but look, guys, it's 2005 - UTF-8 should be the norm, not the exception.
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