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Re: FreeBSD i18n fonts for wscons



On 2/3/10, markucz%gmail.com@localhost <markucz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> Who does still use an 8bit national charset (except Windows)?
>>
> I do.
>
>> It's so last century.
>>
> I don't want a document to take twice as much disk space only because UTF is
> so cool and everybody should be using it anyway.

UTF-8 is a 7bit encoding...

Also you cant write typographically correct text in ISO-8851-{1,2}. Period.

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