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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:09:11 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts
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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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