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Re: [tlug] UTF-8 makes multi-byte ignorant UNIX tools play nicemulti-byte characters



Josh wrote:

> I don't know about this, but Perl's regexp engine handles Unicode and
> multi-line strings. Give Perl a whirl. (Sorry.)

Use UTF-8, 

so that the classic byte-at-a-time UNIX tools that are 
ignorant of multi-byte character handling, can handle multi-byte 
characters without knowing or caring how to handle multi-byte 
characters. 



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