Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix5.panix.com!qz!not-for-mail From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Recent history of vi Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:29:55 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Some absurd concept Message-ID: References: <10fddvm$dsjl$3@dont-email.me> <10fig07$8oe$1@news.misty.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:29:55 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix5.panix.com:166.84.1.5"; logging-data="21086"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: Vectrex rn 2.1 (beta) X-Liz: It's actually happened, the entire Internet is a massive game of Redcode X-Motto: "Erosion of rights never seems to reverse itself." -- kenny@panix X-US-Congress: Moronic Fucks. X-Attribution: EtB XFrom: is a real address Encrypted: double rot-13 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77730 alt.folklore.computers:232234 In comp.os.linux.misc, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2025-11-16 21:59, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> Without UTF-8, you could not have “€” or “©” or “±” or those curly quotes. > Of course you could. > They exist just fine in Latin-1 (hmm, maybe not the quotes...). The Latin-1 I know does not have a Euro symbol. It does have the generic currency placeholder at 0xA5: ¤ Elijah ------ likes utf-8 better than iso-8859-$WHATEVER