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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:49:06 +1000
Subject: Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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2011/6/14 S=E9rgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb@sapo.pt>:
> And see, I can send ascii and utf-8 to utf-8 output and never have proble=
ms,
> but if I send ascii and utf-8 to ascii files sometimes got encode errors.
>

If something fits inside 7-bit ASCII, it is by definition valid UTF-8.
This is not a coincidence.

Those hours you've spent grokking this are not wasted, if you now have
a comprehension of characters vs encodings. More people in the world
need to understand that difference! :)

Chris Angelico