Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:57:31 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts |
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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.
It should, but as long as old programs are still around, we'll have both and need a marker to distinguish them. Otherwise we'll be stuck with legacy scripts for a long time.
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