[TUHS] Character sets (was: Command-line options)

[John Cowan]

Johnny Billquist scripsit:

> On 2016-03-27 08:18, Greg 'groggy' Lehey<grog at lemis.com> wrote:
> >Isn't it wonderful that we no longer have issues with character
> >representation?
> 
> I hope that comment was meant as a joke, ironic, cynical, or whatever...

Undoubtedly.  But things *are* much better than they used to be:
we can now do everything within a single character set, and convert
only at the boundaries (and increasingly, only in one direction).

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