Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

[Bodo Eggert]

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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