Re: Characters lost when saving UTF-8 file on win32 (21.5.16)

>>>>> "Camillo" == Camillo Sars <[email protected]> writes:

    Camillo> I'm sorry Stephen, but the amount of UTF-8 encoded
    Camillo> messages in newsgroups and mail is going up all the time.

I'm aware of that.  However, I've never seen any, and the majority of
active XEmacs developers can live fine in 7 bits.  For the core of
developers it's currently a fairly academic issue.

    Camillo> I honestly find it fairly tragic that XEmacs running on a
    Camillo> Unicode-native OS fails to provide any decent support for
    Camillo> Unicode.

Sure.  But it's also tragic that there are basically no developers
coming forward from that community to help out with XEmacs, compared
to the number of downloads we're seeing on the netinstaller URL.

While I'm interested in getting the Unicode support right because it's
the right thing to do, I can't put high priority on it myself.  It
won't do anything to improve the project as a whole.  I'd like to do
it for the sake of all the people who are using and supporting XEmacs
through discussion and bug reports and feature requests, and need
Unicode as soon as possible.  But we have to put priority on the
things that the current developers, and the people who will provide
the next generation of XEmacs developers, care about.  My best bet is
that Unicode is not high on their list, not yet.  And of course most
core developers are even less altruistic than that; they just work on
the things that make their lives easier.

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