Re: world of utf-8

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> > The ultimate goal is that older encodings can start to
> > fade away, and having every app that deals with text have
> > to deal with a plethora of encodings and codeset conversion
> > issues will be a thing of the past.
> 
> Um, I think he knows this. :)

I was adressing the notion that iso-8859-1 would always be
around, which Bram mentioned, sorry if my quoting wasnt explicit.

I think even latin1 should go away. (Its not a subset of utf-8
and it encourages the use of the control formatting characters
that make utf-8 mess up in most older terminals)
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