On Monday 01 September 2003 17:56, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 04:59:43PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > Some control files contain non-ASCII characters, there is no reason not > > to mandate UTF-8 instead of random encodings. > > It will display incorrectly on the vast majority of workstations. Few > people are using UTF-8 terminals.
What do you think is happening when you display random encodings on a ISO-8859-1 terminal ? Either you choose to mandate UTF-8, or you choose to forbid any encoding other than ASCII7. Mike
