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Re: UTF-8 cleanliness



> I find the vast majority of gremlins in files are on the level of
> special dashes or quotes. And many of the tools I use still appear to
> have difficulties rendering funny characters - not only on NetBSD, but
> also on Linux CLI.

> IFF "UTF8 only" leads to everybody delivering 99% perfect support for
> it, that sounds like a worthy goal, but until then I would prefer "if
> it can be rendered in 7 bit ascii, it should".

> My 0.02 EUR,
> hauke

You mean those funny apostrophes and quotation marks that I find so annoying?

Tom



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