In fact, I think that the patch made the book much worse for beginners,
it adds stuff that hides educational value, and that not all editors
understand. A current _documented_ limitation that UTF-8 is not
supported, IMHO, better fits with the style of the book.
Thus, I object to merging this into trunk until enough questions are
asked. A branch is always OK.
Hmm, I've just skimmed through the rendered version and - having a
beginner in mind - I didn't really find it all that worse. True, there's
bits of additional info to absorb (eg. what is this UTF-8 all about
anyway), and commands.
The worst part is that even if you put a lot of work into having UTF-8
support, many packages will not support it, crash or do other nasties.
That's not very helpful a start with L(FS), as you mentioned. But a
branch will surely be nice for all the folks who need UTF-8 to support
their native languages.
Kind regards.
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