On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mo, 31 Jul 2017, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > >> (Yes, I am pleading devil's advocate in this discussion. I use UTF-8 >> myself — mostly. But I also keep an up-to-date Tiny build of Vim under >> executable name "vi" and I build it with as few optional features as I >> can. Executable sizes: Huge, 2934944 bytes; Tiny, 766992 bytes. Size >> ratio: 3.826564 to 1.) > > And why would you refrain from using UTF-8? In my experience, using a > non multi-byte aware Vim will do more harm than good and users will risk > data damage. >
UTF-8 is designed so that no damage will occur. UTF-16 encodings might be damaged, but typically only if the file is edited. Saving binary data without editing typically doesn't cause harm with Unix tools. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
