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

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. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.