Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:20:50 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts |
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Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > We can do that now, or in five or ten years. I'm willing to wait that > long, but I'm certain that more people will find the UTF-8 signature > useful over time. It's the only sane way to get non-ASCII into script > source in a consistent way. >
No. The sane way is to just use UTF-8.
In five or ten years, by the time you've gotten your idiotic BOM mess to sort-of work, it will be completely pointless to have anything *but* UTF-8, and thus it's pointless.
Don't perpetuate the braindamage.
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