On 10/12/2020 14.04, A. Wik wrote:
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.
Ok, my experience instead is that a lot of tools do mess up the
encodings and its hard to promptly recognize those mess-ups when not
using a UTF encoding. I guess it comes up to one's usual tools, needs
and habits.
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.
Maybe that was in the first years of UTF-8, now several tests showed
that UTF-8 is fairly efficient even for asian languages, so I think it's
generally well accepted and the controversy is just on the BOM.
Anyway I don't think anyone who needs non-english characters has ever
favoured any old non-unicode encoding, Unicode is a bliss precisely for
them.
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