[tz] [PROPOSED 1/4] Allow “§” etc. in commentary

[John Sauter]

On Mon, 2023-01-23 at 15:28 -0700, Paul Gilmartin via tz wrote:
> On 1/23/23 13:48:02, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
> 
> > * Makefile (UNUSUAL_OK_LATIN_1): Allow all non-alphabetic,
> > non-ASCII printable characters that are Latin-1.  This is
> > primarily for “§” and we might as well allow them all
> > since even XEmacs 21 supports them all.
> 
> Ouch!  UTF-8 is too pervasive on desktops and WWW for that to be
> comfortable.
> 
> And on a UTF-8 desktop, GNU sed strangles on non-UTF-8 strings:
> 1250 $ printf 'a\xa7b\n' | sed -E 's/(.)(.)(.)/1 \1  2 \2  3 \3/'
> sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence
> 1251 $
> 

I think the intent is to allow non-ASCII characters that are in Latin-
1, even though the file is coded in UTF-8.  That is, not all Unicode
characters are allowed, only those that appear in Latin-1.
    John Sauter (John_Sauter at systemeyescomputerstore.com)
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