July 2, 2008
1:02 a.m.
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
[1] Yes, there are a few languages other than English whose script only needs 7-bit ASCII.
Of course, English is not one of them.
It would be naïve to think otherwise. English has a handful of words that need récherché characters. ASCII presents an adequate façade, but my 2¢ worth is that English also benefits from Unicode™. It even needs the odd symbol from outside Latin-1 enough of the time that UTF-8 seems a sensible way to keep our heads above H₂O. :) My only request is to give a bit of warning. Right now, I have the Tcl version of ZIC coded to expect the input files to be Latin-1. It's a one-line change to make them UTF-8, but it's important to know *when* to make it. -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin