Am 14.02.2013 15:10, schrieb Markus Kuhn:
Paul Eggert wrote on 2013-01-13 07:23 UTC:
On 01/12/2013 10:00 PM, Jaakko Hyvätti wrote:
sooner or later it will be utf-8 as it has been for the rest of the world.
In the long term UTF-8 is no doubt the way to go, but we might not be quite there yet.
UTF-8 has been very well supported by all major Unix/Linux distibutions for nearly a decade now, and has been the default locale in most new installations since about 2005.
I strongly recommend that you use
unset LC_ALL LANG=en_US.UTF-8 # or en_GB.UTF-8, ... outside the US LC_COLLATE=POSIX # to avoid surprises with sorting order and globbing
With that, I hope that you will quickly find UTF-8 perfectly acceptable now in source code.
UTF-8 has long become common practice in comments of many open-source projects.
Markus
i prefer plain ascii because i get trouble from time to time with mixed code documentation. (last week some wired 16bit thing). being conservative seems the most practical way. just my 2 cents, wh