Re: Changing encoding of an already loaded buffer

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 20:20, Gabriele F <gbfv@tiscali.it> wrote:
>
> On 09/12/2020 18.47, A. Wik wrote:
> > I don't include utf8 in my default fencs setting because that has the
> > side effect of using utf8 for any newly created files.
>
> Completely off-topic, if you don't have particular needs ...

I just like to keep things "8-bit clean". As long as all tools used
to process the files are also 8-bit clean, nothing gets corrupted.
Alas, it does mean files are sometimes displayed incorrectly. But in
my experience, it gets messy when I introduce UTF-8.

> I imagine most of the critics are from countries that never needed more
> than ASCII

There is something to it. People who use only ASCII seem to like
UTF-8 better than those who frequently use non-English characters.
I've seen claims that UTF-8 is "compact" but compared to strictly
8-bit character sets like Latin-1 it is not.

-aw

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