On 21 August 2014 23:27, Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's not "ASCII compatible". That's "not all byte codes can be freely used
> without thought", and any multibyte coding will have to consider such things
> when embedding itself in another coding scheme.

I wonder how badly a Unix system would break if you specified UTF16 as
the system encoding...?
Paul
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