Trouble saving unicode text to file

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

John Machin wrote:
> 
> 
> The general rule in working with Unicode can be expressed something
> like "work in Unicode all the time i.e. decode legacy text as early as
> possible; encode into legacy text (if absolutely required) as late as
> possible (corollary: if forced to communicate with another
> Unicode-aware system over an 8-bit wide channel, encode as utf-8, not
> cp666)"
> 

+1 QOTW

And true, too.

<i-especially-like-the-cp666-part>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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