Source code should be printable ASCII. Which is, of course, a subset of UTF-8.

It should be printable ASCII because not everyone who wants of needs to hack on it will have font support for weirdo characters. YOU might not have support for weirdo characters all the time - if, for example, it all goes wrong and you have to fix stuff using the crappy ssh client on your phone. If you need non-ASCII text in your application, then it should be corralled into language-specific ghettoes: templates or resource files.

In fact, even if your application only needs to work in ASCII-compatible languages (the only two I can think of are English and Latin) then ideally text strings will still live in templates and resource files, for two reasons. First, seperation of concerns. Second, it'll let you more easily add other languages later.

In reply to Re^2: Save yourself, start all projets with UTF-8 encoding by DrHyde
in thread Save yourself, start all projets with UTF-8 encoding by Lady_Aleena

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