Re: strange behaviour of utf-8 files

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:07:18 +0100, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> declaimed the following:

>On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:32:55 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
>> On 16.11.13 16:55, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>> As I said in order to avoid troubles, don't use anything but ASCII.
>> 
>> ASCII-ism is the soil in which dangerous bugs keep many things
>> from working.(*)
>
>On the contrary, it is a reasonable precaution against sloppy OSes (Linux,
>Windows) incapable to handle encoding safely [*]. The OP just ran into
>that. If he followed the advise he would never have any problems of this
>kind.
>
>Using full Unicode in source files is a recipe for bugs intractable for
>many program readers, like ones who would not guess 'a' and '?' different
>letters.
>

	5-bit BAUDOT should be good enough for any programming!

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