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echo: rberrypi
to: AXEL BERGER
from: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
date: 2021-02-13 13:55:00
subject: Re: LXTerm to accept ANSI

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:27:44 +0100
Axel Berger  wrote:

> 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

 With UTF there are no codepages, OK the million point address space
is broken up into blocks for different purposes but there's none of this
nonsense of one value having multiple interpretations as in ISO-8859 et al.

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