Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8
Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> immo vero scripsit
> > utf8 in the current state does not cover everything we had in other encodings.
>
> utf8 is just a _multibyte_ encoding, not _character_ encoding,
> it can represent whatever character encoding is used in UCS-4
UCS4 is not a satisfactory encoding for our needs, unfortunately.
JIS is not comlpete either, but UCS4 is less.
I would not go against making programs utf-8-aware,
but I don't think that changing all the documentation to utf-8
is going too far.
regards,
junichi
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