From: greg andruk (meowing@banet.net)
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 14:07:58 CDT
In nnmh:usefor, Jonathan Grobe <grobe@worf.netins.net> wrote:
> Could you explain why other punctuation characters are going
> to cause problems but not the thousands of UTF-8 characters which
> are going to be added?
Because UTF-8 sets all extended characters' bytes over 127. The
problematic escape chars all live in the traditional 7-bit ASCII
range.