Bodo Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Bodo Eggert wrote:
[...]
> > > 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.
Right.
> 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.
Please. Let people who mess with legacy stuff suffer, don't make everybody
else (and forevermore!) pay the price.
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