Re: Vim 6.0 has been released (debian info)

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110040658000.24577-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
>   People want it so that there's a need for it.
> 
>   Why do you think people need not edit UTF-8 files when connecting to
> a remote host with a terminal emulator or in console?  IMHO, UTF-8 is
> US-ASCII of the future if not right now. Can you imagine an editor that
> cannot speak US-ASCII on a system where US-ASCII is the default encoding
> for text?
> 

Yes, we've gone from US-ASCII (7) > Latin-1 (8) > Unicode 1.x (16) >
modern Unicode (21) in size.  Some of these steps are still happening
(and some will, of course, get omitted), however, we should keep our
eyes on the goal.

	-hpa
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