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List:       gnulib-bug
Subject:    Re: Slight typographical improvements to README-release
From:       Paul Eggert <eggert () cs ! ucla ! edu>
Date:       2012-05-29 15:01:13
Message-ID: 4FC4E4B9.7080705 () cs ! ucla ! edu
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On 05/29/2012 06:11 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> I find UTF-8 to be a great boon precisely for making plain
> text more legible.

UTF-8 is sometimes necessary and usually works, but even today
it fails often enough that I'd rather avoid it if it's
merely a minor style issue such as arrows.  For example,
if from my Fedora desktop I run plain "ssh" into a random
Solaris 11 host and try to paste that "=E2=86=92" into Emacs, Emacs says
"Regexp I-search backward:", and if I try to visit a file
containing the "=E2=86=92" I see "?".  I'm sure that I can work around
this issue with the proper ssh flags and environment settings
and whatnot, but who has the time?

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