Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 03:24:14 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Grep with non-ascii Message-ID: <202302090224.3192OEta077155@dell.no.berklix.net>
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> The one positive development in the world of computing that I would > credit to Java is the earliest big push toward the adoption of UTF-8. > I strongly hope UTF-8 becomes universally used sooner rather than > later. -- George No idea What might be best for Arabic, Greek, Japanese etc: But For international English (& Italian where English font started) it's wrong to expect masses of people OK with Ascii, to waste time extending / learning / configuring tools for un-necessary UTF. Bad enough were single bytes above 0x7f for European accents (eg umlauts etc) that ignored conventions eg Ae Oe Ue (& SS = sharf ess since dumped in .de). USD GBP EUR avoid dodgey currency symbols `$` & `#` etc. UTF & HTML & MIME base 64 make spam filtering via procmail a nightmare. UTF is a spam indicator, most auto discarded here. ports/textproc/mgdiff was last to break here, Umlauts changed to Ascii, better than changing mgdiff. Cheers, -- Julian Stacey www.StolenVotes.UK/jhs/ Arm Ukraine, Zap Putin. Brexit broke UKhome | help
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