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

[Paul Gilmartin]

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 $

-- 
gil