Re: [tz] [PROPOSED 1/4] Allow “§” etc. in commentary

On 1/23/23 13:48:02, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:

* Makefile (UNUSUAL_OK_LATIN_1): Allow all non-alphabetic, non-ASCII printable characters that are Latin-1. This is primarily for “§” and we might as well allow them all since even XEmacs 21 supports them all.

Ouch! UTF-8 is too pervasive on desktops and WWW for that to be comfortable. And on a UTF-8 desktop, GNU sed strangles on non-UTF-8 strings: 1250 $ printf 'a\xa7b\n' | sed -E 's/(.)(.)(.)/1 \1 2 \2 3 \3/' sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence 1251 $ -- gil