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On 6/20/21 8:47 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2021-06-20 20:21, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> 
> That ship has sailed. I would say that any use of String as Latin-1 is a mistake 
> now because most of the libraries would use UTF-8 encoding instead of Latin-1. 

I have never subscribed to the illogic that if enough people make the same 
mistake, it ceases to be a mistake.

> Latin is a dead language, you know... (:-))

Some people still speak it. No one has ever spoken Unicode.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
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