Hi,
Newlines behave differently when using utf8 and other encodings,
e.g. between the top line and the title (which is fine), but also between
title and author, which I dislike a lot. I don't know if this is a
features.
Example:
#+title: title
#+author: author
utf8 output with 2 newlines between title and author and no line between
top line and title.
━━━━━━━━
TITLE
author
━━━━━━━━
Ascii output with a single newline between title and author. Much nicer.
________
TITLE
author
________
—Rasmus
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This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put