   Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <ekalin@gmail.com>: >  s. keeling wrote:
> > Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>: > >    > >>  Why are you
against switching to UTF-8? Disk space? There really is > > > >
Why would I be _for_ switching?  I'm a unilingual [Anglophone].
utf-8 >  Even if you used a language with a few accented
characters (French, >  Spanish, Polish, etc.), your files would
only change with regards to >  those characters (which would
take 2 instead of one byte - but you could >  have French and
Polish in the same file, for example). The difference is >
minimal, and, for English only, inexistent.  I'm still wondering
where the argument _for_ this is.  I'm doing Anglaise and
nothing else, and you can easily handle that there. Rhetorical,
but why would I want to go utf-8?  I can see little point in it
in my situation.  I'll create another acct on this thing and try
it there.  If I manage to find my way South to S. Am. & learning
Espanol, it likely will come in handy.  I'll be able to do that
curly thing over