Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > "Ted Unangst" writes: > > Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > "Punctuation followed by backspace" hasn't been the right way to enter > > > accents for a long time. > > > > hard to see what the diff is doing since i coudn't see the backspaces. :) > > > > do we want to delete them? or replace them with proper utf-8 sequences? > > I wouldn't mind doing that. But fortune(6) will happily print UTF-8 to a > non-UTF-8 terminal, which though probably harmless might be undesirable. > And since nobody's complained in the past few years that they couldn't > see the accents in Jabberwocky...
i wouldn't complain, because i never use accented characters, not even on my resume. :) but i don't think there's anything wrong with a little testing of the utf-8 functionality, either. and it always sucks to lose information if somebody went to the trouble of recording the necessary accents already. we use utf-8 for calendars, too.
