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echo: rberrypi
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from: NIKOLAJ LAZIC
date: 2021-02-13 13:56:00
subject: Re: LXTerm to accept ANSI

Dana Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:27:44 +0100, Axel Berger 
napis'o:
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> the *only* encoding capable of representing
>> everything unambiguously.
>
> Yes it is ambiguous when the codepage is not expicitly declared but the
> bigger advantage is using more than one codepage in a single text, like
> quoting Hebrew and Greek in German. Personally I stick to TeX syntax
> even for those. One character -- one byte has its advantages if you like
> the command line and editor makros.
>
> The downside are the malicious possibilities it opens. In my eyes it was
> a big mistake to open domain names to more than ASCII. There are many
> (near) lookalikes and that fools even the careful user, who makes a
> point of checking the true destination before clicking.

I still use unicode in Latex.

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