From: Bruno H. <ha...@il...> - 2003-02-25 13:14:31
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Dan Knapp writes: > I definitely vote for 7-bit ascii. At worst an editor encountering > an encoding it doesn't know will display garbage characters, but > that's distracting and could be confusing. That's a poor attitude. Following this recommendation we would still be in a 7-bit characters world of 1983. We are switching to C99 and having sources in UTF-8 because we _like_ these and want them to become more standard. Yes be prepared to get some editor to disply garbage for them - but then go out and report a bug for this editor so it gets fixed. Testing the limits of technology means stretching the limits of technology. Bruno |