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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