On 05/29/2012 06:11 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > I find UTF-8 to be a great boon precisely for making plain > text more legible.
UTF-8 is sometimes necessary and usually works, but even today it fails often enough that I'd rather avoid it if it's merely a minor style issue such as arrows. For example, if from my Fedora desktop I run plain "ssh" into a random Solaris 11 host and try to paste that "→" into Emacs, Emacs says "Regexp I-search backward:", and if I try to visit a file containing the "→" I see "?". I'm sure that I can work around this issue with the proper ssh flags and environment settings and whatnot, but who has the time?
