alternatives to terago wireless in toronto ???

[Ian Petersen]

On 5/16/07, William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I think that using non-UTF8 in this day and age is more likely to lead
> to problems rather than less.  Macs use unicode, Windows uses unicode,
> and Linux/*BSD are fully capable of handling and displaying unicode.
> More and more of my input is unicode, so it makes sense to handle it.
> Vim manages most potential problems by being sensitive to the file
> encoding, so I can edit ascii and write ascii when needed without
> jumping through hoops.

One of the nice benefits of using UTF-8 is that all the characters
defined in 7-bit ASCII map to exactly the same bit patterns in UTF-8.
If you're writing a text file in English and save it as UTF-8, an
ASCII-only editor will read it just fine.

The downside, of course, is that UTF-8 is unnecessarily bulky for
people whose primary language uses multi-byte characters.

Ian

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