Essentially every single time I need to deal with a document containing utf8, I see glitches. It's not every single app but there's always some app. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 9, 2017, at 2:59 PM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In article <8302af6e-63a0-bade-d94e-accd5bd59ec1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >> of being able to represent names and non-English text faithfully in >> bits, only to have them be rendered unfaithfully by a great many >> present-day applications. > > Can you give us some examples of these present-day applications that > don't handle UTF-8? > > My experience is quite the opposite: anything written in the past > decade handles UTF-8 just fine. It's not like I'm running cutting > edge stuff, I look at RFCs using "more" in a shell window. > > R's, > John