On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Frank S. Bernhardt wrote:
> By changing the way $h_xxx expands do you risk breaking someone else's code?
Possibly. That's why I'm asking for opinions.
> Would creating a new variable such as $rfch_xxx solve this problem?
Yes, but it adds complication - and users who write filter files are
often not experience and not geeks. On the whole they probably won't
know about this encoding complication at all.
> This
> way everything works as before but someone needing to search for
> non-ASCII characters would simply use the new variable.
I suspect that many "ordinary" users are not aware of ASCII and
non-ASCII. They just type keys on their keyboards into their editors,
and the characters appear on the screen. So they would just be confused
by this whole discussion...
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