Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

[H. Peter Anvin]

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.

	-hpa
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