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Hey Maurice!

On Fri, Apr 06 1900 20:46:12 -0600, you wrote:

 > It's varied over the last year from internal bleeding to potential 
 > cancerous polyps.  The latest scan (ultrasound) showed a polyp on my 
 > gall bladder which will need to be checked out.  So far anything 
 > they've found has proved to be benign or cauterized in the case of 
 > internal bleeding.  No real fix yet and I have to get blood 
 > transfusions far too often.  :-(

Are the transfusions for blood loss, or that it's not getting filtered
properly? I take it they've already looked at your liver and kidneys?

 > Whoa!  Seems to me that they were recommending UTF-8 adoption further 
 > back than 2019.  Not having anything to do with MS products I can 
 > only account for what I've heard through the grapevine over the 
 > years.

Seems as though it has always been UTF-16 after UCS 2, although since WinXP
they introduced code page 65001, which was designated for UTF-8.. so maybe
that's about the time the issues started to decrease. It wasn't until 2019
that MS started recommending programmers use UTF-8, and only now in Windows 11
some system files are required to use UTF-8 and do not require a Byte Order
Mark. Seems as though they had slapped in a workaround back in 2005-ish, and
hadn't really done anything about it for some 14 years, or so.

Regards,
Nick

... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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