Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) skribis:

>        ludo> the intent is to make UTF-8 more natural, rather than a second
>        choice when “there’s a good reason to do [it].”
>
>    Sorry, I think it *should* be a (distant) second choice.  The
>    assumption that all the world is UTF-8 is simply not valid, in my
>    experience.  Both personally and with people I know.
>
> How about a change like follows?

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>   If you need to use non-ASCII characters, you should normally stick
> ! with one encoding, certainly within a single file.  UTF-8 is the best
> ! and prefered choice.

Yes, sounds like an improvement to me.

Ludo’.