Aahz Maruch writes: > Being someone who knows little about Unicode and being something of a > 7-bit ASCII snob, could someone clarify for me whether the UTF-8 > proposal would cause any difficulty with a pure-ASCII file? Or would I > have to give up the vi-compatible mode of vim? Pure 7-bit ASCII is good as UTF-8; there may be some quirks with control characters, but I'm not aware of anything specific. The difference between ASCII and UTF-9 starts at the 8th bit, so pure ASCII (not Latin-1) should be quite happy in a UTF-8 world. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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