On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 2:04 PM A. Wik <awi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 20:20, Gabriele F <g...@tiscali.it> wrote: > > > > On 09/12/2020 18.47, A. Wik wrote: > > > I don't include utf8 in my default fencs setting because that has the > > > side effect of using utf8 for any newly created files. > > > > Completely off-topic, if you don't have particular needs ... > > I just like to keep things "8-bit clean". As long as all tools used > to process the files are also 8-bit clean, nothing gets corrupted. > Alas, it does mean files are sometimes displayed incorrectly. But in > my experience, it gets messy when I introduce UTF-8. > > > I imagine most of the critics are from countries that never needed more > > than ASCII > > There is something to it. People who use only ASCII seem to like > UTF-8 better than those who frequently use non-English characters. > I've seen claims that UTF-8 is "compact" but compared to strictly > 8-bit character sets like Latin-1 it is not. > > -aw
- For pure 7-bit ASCII, all three of us-ascii, Latin1 and UTF-8 are equivalent, they represent the data identically. - For "Western Latin" (French, Spanish, etc.) Latin1 is slightly more economical than UTF-8. How much more depends on the percent abundance of accented letters not found in ASCII. - When mixing several scripts (at least two of Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, CJK ideographic, etc.) within a single document, I know no better encoding than UTF-8. In an 8-bit charset like Latin1 you have only (at most) 256 different valid character values, and that is much too few as soon as you start mixing scripts: be it for a juxtalinear edition of the Bible (with the original Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek text next to a translation and/or commentary) or for a Greek-Russian or Russian-Finnish dictionary. And of course even for a single CJK script, no 8-bit script can do the job. Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAJkCKXt2bHw0RfJ6yfOBX%3D7%3DErBV0nPtUK--V0tP%2B6Og%3DONTHg%40mail.gmail.com.