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From: Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Recent history of vi
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On 2025-11-16, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2025-11-16, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On 16 Nov 2025 20:19:12 GMT, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>
>>> Lack of utf-8 would be an issue for some things, but mostly not.
>>
>> Without UTF-8, you could not have “€” or “©” or “±” or those curly quotes.
>
> Those three are all in iso8859-15 and in Mac OS Roman...

Huh. I wouldn't have expected "€" to be in Mac OS Roman, but you're
right. As of a certain version, anyhow.

Niklas
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