trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii

[Mark Lawrence]

On 28/10/2013 14:01, wxjmfauth at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Just as a reminder. They are 1272 characters considered
> as Latin characters (how to count them it not a simple
> task), and if my knowledge is correct, they are covering
> and/or are here to cover the 17 languages, to be exact,
> the 17 European languages based on a Latin alphabet which
> can not be covered with iso-8859-1.
>
> And of course, logically, they are very, very badly handled
> with the Flexible String Representation.
>
> jmf
>

Please provide us with evidence to back up your statement.

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Mark Lawrence