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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