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Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:41:16 -0400 |
ludo> the intent is to make UTF-8 more natural, rather than a second
choice when âthereâs a good reason to do [it].â
Sorry, I think it *should* be a (distant) second choice. The
assumption that all the world is UTF-8 is simply not valid, in my
experience. Both personally and with people I know.
How about a change like follows?
***************
*** 3200,3207 ****
names of contributors in change logs (@pxref{Change Logs}).
If you need to use non-ASCII characters, you should normally stick
! with one encoding, certainly within a single file. UTF-8 is likely to
! be the best choice.
@node Quote Characters
--- 3200,3207 ----
names of contributors in change logs (@pxref{Change Logs}).
If you need to use non-ASCII characters, you should normally stick
! with one encoding, certainly within a single file. UTF-8 is the best
! and prefered choice.
@node Quote Characters
- [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/07/05
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Patrice Dumas, 2014/07/06
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/07/06
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, John Darrington, 2014/07/06
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/07/06
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Karl Berry, 2014/07/06
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/07/08
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Karl Berry, 2014/07/09
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/07/10
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Karl Berry, 2014/07/06
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2014/07/07
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Karl Berry, 2014/07/07
- Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2014/07/10