Re: Changing encoding of an already loaded buffer

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 15:04, A. Wik <awik32@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 20:20, Gabriele F <gbfv@tiscali.it> wrote:
> ..............
> > 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.

To people who use only ASCII the distinction between ASCII and
UTF-8 is totally irrelevant, because in their case UTF-8 is precisely ASCII
by definition.

But people like me, who regularly use scripts other than Latin, and who
also like to indulge themselves with mathematical and other 'special'
characters in plain text – they are those who really appreciate and
praise the advent of Unicode and UTF-8.

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