>> The thing is, in this day and age, the *right* encoding is UTF-8. Eh, no. There is no single right encoding. The right encoding varies with almost everything involved: the human, the OS, the terminal (or now more often terminal emulator) in use, the webpage being fetched, possibly other things I haven't thought of.
In particular, trying to tell me you know better than I do what encoding is right for my use cases is a pretty sure path to my writing you off as a religious nutter (for, admittedly, semi-metaphorical values of "religious"). >> The default configuraton should be UTF-8, if the system can handle >> it (which all modern systems do.) > try to avoid misusing "modern" - it's not going to improve my > attitude. Nor mine. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
