26 Jan
2012
26 Jan
'12
3:22 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Al Haines wrote:
UTF8 files are pretty much mandatory only when a text is in languages such as Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, etc., and a Latin1/ASCII conversion isn't practical.
Don't forget other languages that use the roman alphabet, but characters outside of latin-1. Examples that have been posted to PG include Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Esperanto. --Andrew