s. keeling wrote: > Why would I be _for_ switching? I'm a unilingual Anglophile. utf-8 > would gain me nothing. I'm glad utf-8 (et al) finally exists for > those of you who who can use it or need it. However, it's irrelevant > here. I only know English, and can puzzle out some words in other > related western European languages. My native spoken language is American English. (Saying it that way because lately I more typically interact with computers via the keyboard using the C and Ruby and POSIX shell languages. :-) But I prefer UTF-8. Why? Because typeset English != US-ASCII. For example in written English one may use left and right quotation marks. These are not available in the us-ascii encoding. Additionally in the English business world there is a high rate of occurrance of trademark symbols and copyright symbols and other characters not present in us-ascii. All of those work very well with UTF-8. As an English only speaker I get great benefit from UTF-8. Bob
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