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Re: Slight typographical improvements to README-release
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Slight typographical improvements to README-release |
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Tue, 29 May 2012 08:01:13 -0700 |
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On 05/29/2012 06:11 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> I find UTF-8 to be a great boon precisely for making plain
> text more legible.
UTF-8 is sometimes necessary and usually works, but even today
it fails often enough that I'd rather avoid it if it's
merely a minor style issue such as arrows. For example,
if from my Fedora desktop I run plain "ssh" into a random
Solaris 11 host and try to paste that "→" into Emacs, Emacs says
"Regexp I-search backward:", and if I try to visit a file
containing the "→" I see "?". I'm sure that I can work around
this issue with the proper ssh flags and environment settings
and whatnot, but who has the time?