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On 04/06/2014 08:58, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:
>>> Maybe there's a use-case for a microcontroller that works in ISO-8859-5
>>> natively, thus using only eight bits per character,
>> That won't even make the Russians happy, since in Russia there are
>> multiple incompatible legacy encodings.
>
> I've never understood why not use UTF-8 for everything.
>
me too

-mojibaked-ly yrs-
Robin Becker