Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:05:29 +0200 | | From | Martin Mares <> | | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts |
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Hello!
> With the UTF-8 signature, things become much simpler: editors can > automatically detect presence of the signature, and need no > language-specific parsing.
I still think that this does solve only a completely insignificant part of the problem. Given the zillion existing encodings, you are able to identify UTF-8, leaving you with zillion-1 other encodings you are unable to deal with.
> Probably not literally, as we are not searching for an explanation of > some phenomenon.
ACK, not literally.
> You are probably suggesting that people dislike the > feature because they see no need for it (as one poster stated it: > I don't use UTF-8, so I don't want that feature).
I see a need for a feature which would help identify the charset of the script, but the patch in question obviously doesn't offer that -- it solves only a single special case of the problem in a completely non-systematic way. This does not sound right.
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