Re: strange behaviour of utf-8 files

[Stoik <staszek.goldstein@gmail.com>]

W dniu niedziela, 17 listopada 2013 15:07:18 UTC+1 użytkownik Dmitry A. Kazakov napisał:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:32:55 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
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> > On 16.11.13 16:55, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
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> >> As I said in order to avoid troubles, don't use anything but ASCII.
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> > ASCII-ism is the soil in which dangerous bugs keep many things
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> > from working.(*)
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> On the contrary, it is a reasonable precaution against sloppy OSes (Linux,
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> Windows) incapable to handle encoding safely [*]. The OP just ran into
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> that. If he followed the advise he would never have any problems of this
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> kind.

The advice is: do not use cars, they are often badly manufactured and drivers can be mad. Go on foot, far from busy roads! 

I suspect it is much better to press the companies to produce better OS'es and compilers. People do use various languages and/or scripts. And seeing dozens of packages for handling strange characters without the possibility of using them in a natural manner is a bit frustrating.