CORRECTION - Re: [ILUG] Editing unicode text files.

Brian Foster blf at blf.utvinternet.ie
Sun Feb 18 08:20:23 GMT 2007


  | From: Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie>
  | Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:00:35 +0000
  | 
  | Damn, but this whole area is a minefield.  [ ... ]

 <<<giggles>>>  yep.  I believe the thinking nowadays
 of the real experts is it is a mistake for the locale
 to specify the encoding, and every locale should just
 use UTF-8 (the Plan 9 approach).

cheers!
	-blf-
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