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SubjectRe: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts
Bodo Eggert wrote:
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> 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.

-hpa
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