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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
Date: Tue,  2 Jul 2002 08:53:41 +0000
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rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> the benefits of converting to utf-8 throughout were obvious.  does the
> ability to type ' ' rather than (say) ALT-' ' really confer comparable
> advantages?

The benefits of any feature depend on whether you make use of them.
People living in an ASCII world get no particular benefit from UTF8,
and people with spaces in file names (e.g. on a Windows filesystem)
get substantial benefit from having their files handled properly.