On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:10:03 +0200 Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Indeed, before UTF-8, in the 1990s, I recall some Russians using > LaTeX files with sections in different Cyrillic and Latin encodings, > changing the editor encoding while typing. Rather like some of the old Unicode list archives, which are just concatenations of a month's emails, with all sorts of 8-bit encodings and stretches of base64. Richard.