On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM, James Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
Don>Starting at the most basic level, is there any good reason not to use utf-8 as the basic encoding standard for everything including plain-text?* ***
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BOM or no BOM?
Pick one - but it's pretty unusual to use BOM any more.
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Unix or Windows style line breaks?
Pick one and filter the other.
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Line breaks meaning paragraph separations or line breaks meaning, well, whatever it is that PG means by line breaks?****
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Would we change what we're doing now?
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“uft-8” meaning that “we” use the interpretation of the code points as defined by Unicode, or meaning “we” invent our own meanings for those code points?****
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Would you seriously consider defining your own?
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