I'm in favour of supporting UTF-8.But I don't think this has to be top priority. We already support UCS2-LE and UCS2-BE (according to the user manual), which can do the vast majority of unicode characters.
Bert On 07/04/2012 12:56 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
I'm waiting for the Europeans to come back online. It's night there now. In case we have a consensus to use UTF-8 we can fall back to Latin-1 if an invalid UTF-8 character sequence is encountgered. In this case there would be a warning message. Linux text editors are intended for use with programming languages. I'm looking for one that can handle UTF-8. I work at the command line because I find GUI's hard to use. There are others who have been blind from birth who don't have this problem. Perhaps trining would help, but I have never been able to afford it. John B
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