Re: Vowel with Umlaut

[David Kastrup]

David Rogers <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't believe there is any good reason for a non-programmer to be
> using anything other than Unicode (usually as UTF-8, but whichever way
> the particular system wants to handle Unicode) for day-to-day
> things. The limitations of ASCII made perfect sense, in 1976. Last I
> checked, it isn't 1976. :)

If you want to stay with ASCII, that is not a problem: utf-8 is a proper
superset of ASCII (a 7-bit encoding).

An ASCII file does not need any conversion to be treated correctly in an
utf-8 environment.

It is the pesky variety of 8-bit encodings and more that may cause
trouble.

-- 
David Kastrup