Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:43:01 -0800 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: UTF as Filename Extension Message-ID: <4984C5E5.1070505@highperformance.net>
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Here is a simple discussion that is probably more complex than I'd like it to be. Is there any way to enforce a UTF-8 encoding of a file, perhaps by filename extension? Could such an encoding solve cross platform line break incompatibility? A wiki article states that such capability exists, but the tools aren't there yet. I suppose the easiest question to answer is, should users like me worry about it much? I use unformatted text more and more for documents, saving the formatting step for late in the writing process. I like my text to be variable width and to reflow along paragraph demarcations. New line compatibility issues are annoying. Fixing them is not what I want to spend time doing. Regards, Jason
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