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Out of interest what do you see as the benefits of UTF-8 in source files? It has caused me problems a couple of times, and I don't ever think I have needed any
by collyw 9y ago
Out of interest what do you see as the benefits of UTF-8 in source files?
It has caused me problems a couple of times, and I don't ever think I have needed anything outside of ASCII for source code, with the exception of entering some foreign names in to a database via a script.
- hyperman1 9y agoSorry, that post got horribly mangled. I want UTF-8 in the database, not the source files. This is Europe, user data has accents aplenty. This once ran on a real mainframe, but was then migrated. So it has the common subset of win1252 and some ebcdic variant, minus lowercase. No euro sign on the financial report anywhere ;-)
- ams6110 9y agoIn COBOL, you will have EBCDIC, not ASCII.