Re: strange behaviour of utf-8 files

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:19:23 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 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!

On the other side, there exist an alphabet in which any eligible program is
just one symbol long. Both Unicode and ASCII are in between.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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