On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 06:19:29PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote: > On 22/07/17 15:06, John Gardner wrote: > > ... Can I semi-seriously implore the world to only use UTF-8, and > > pretend other encodings don't exist? > > Not really going to happen, for as long as MS-Windows remains the > dominant OS for personal computer platforms.
I have documents, nroff, troff and others (plus sh/ksh/awk/sed/... scripts), dating back to the mid-1970s. Many of those *roff documents still format correctly. The thing I _like_ about the *nix OSs is they don't demand I upconvert just because a "better way" comes along. Remember when the "modern" way to archive was to put everything onto microfiche? -- Mike Bianchi
