[NEWS] Any problems with 2.4.3? Future 2.5 release

[jda]

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>>  Really, Ruslan, you've been promising UTF-8 storage forever!  This is
>>  a main feature for many of use. Please make this happen in 2.5.
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>I knew you will say this.

I try to be consistent!

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>Btw, I ld like ask:
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>* what about storage to be e.g. Latin-1 ?

Not for me, at least. It's so 1990's...

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>* do you have any points why UTf8 can be better of Latin-1 for people hat
>store e.g. pure English into db files ?
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Not much. A few things, though. utf-8 is platform-neutral (Latin-1 
is, I belive, Windows, like MacRoman is Mac). And even if you use 
*primarily* the Latin-1/MacRoman alphabet, you may want to 
occasionally stick in something like Greek (as a scientist, I can 
tell you it is very common to use Greek letters like alpha and beta 
in an otherwise 100% English record). UTF-8 gives you this 
flexibility.

If you're saying offer UTF-8 AND Latin-1 as possible encodings, I see 
no problem with that at all.

Jon