Re: Save yourself, start all projets with UTF-8 encoding

While I agree with the sentiment that it seldom makes sense to use an encoding other than UTF-8, I'm struggling with this bit:

All of my code is written in and around an unknown encoding.

What does that even mean? Surely 5-10 minutes with a hex dump tool (or Perl's ord() function for that matter) will tell you what encoding you're using.

Using UTF-8 is not a panacea but it's usually an excellent first step.

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Re^2: Save yourself, start all projets with UTF-8 encoding by Anonymous Monk on Apr 01, 2011 at 08:14 UTC
Using UTF-8 is not a panacea but it's usually an excellent first step. Like a horny horse is an unicorn, using utf-8 is a panacea	[reply]