Re: [Ltru] UTF-8

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Thu, 21 June 2007 18:58 UTC

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To: GerardM <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] UTF-8
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GerardM scripsit:

> It happens often that exactly because of the content is NOT UTF-8 that
> I get the information mangled. With UTF-8 you either get the message
> or it will be indicated that you have insufficient fonts installed. The
> notion that the current encoding always works is wrong.

It always works for ASCII text, and the Registry is restricted to
ASCII text.

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