Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:51:56 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@turbofuzz.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, "Bernhard Riedel \(Work\)" <bernhard@sdg.de>, Astrid Jekat <astrid@jekat.com>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy.at.mips.inka.de@berklix.com> Subject: Re: patch for /usr/src/usr.bin/fmt/ (not 8 bit clean) for German & French Message-ID: <4F82F771-E4D2-400F-B2A4-085595B507DA@turbofuzz.com> In-Reply-To: <201311120106.rAC16BNC066644@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201311120106.rAC16BNC066644@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Nov 11, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > I don't know about ISO 8859-1 and UTF-8, (I dislike & avoid > national char set stuff as much as possible), but I want Well, nobody can ever accuse you of following the herd! If there ever = was a herd you were a member of, in fact, I=92m sure the species has = long since gone extinct. ;-) Seriously though, this war is over and UTF-8 won. There may be some = small pockets of resistance, but they=92re demographically less than = significant (insert standard analogy here of soldiers still fighting = WWII on isolated islands in the Pacific). The Linux crowd switched as = early as 2002, and OS X has been using UTF-8 on the CLI as the default = for at least 5 years now. Required reading: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html http://www.madboa.com/geek/utf8/ P.S. UTF-8 is not a =93national character set=94 either. It was = actually invented by Ken Thompson in 1992 and drawn on a placemat = (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt). It has an = excellent pedigree. :) - Jordan
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