> Acme treats all text as UTF-8. If the input text was ms-kanji, it won't > be UTF-8 and when acme reads it, it will end up full of encoding errors > - represented in UTF-8. Running that UTF-8 text back through > tcs -f ms-kanji will produce gibberish. > > You need to use tcs on the raw files before putting them into the editor > (or almost any other Plan 9 tool). > > -rob
one of the best decisions made in plan 9 is to have one character set. there are a few downsides, but plan 9 doesn't need locals and the tools may be ignorant of other character sets. gnu grep is a good example of why locals are a bad idea. - erik
