Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

       ludo> the intent is to make UTF-8 more natural, rather than a second
       choice when “there’s a good reason to do [it].”

   Sorry, I think it *should* be a (distant) second choice.  The
   assumption that all the world is UTF-8 is simply not valid, in my
   experience.  Both personally and with people I know.

How about a change like follows?

***************
*** 3200,3207 ****
  names of contributors in change logs (@pxref{Change Logs}).
  
  If you need to use non-ASCII characters, you should normally stick
! with one encoding, certainly within a single file.  UTF-8 is likely to
! be the best choice.
  
  
  @node Quote Characters
--- 3200,3207 ----
  names of contributors in change logs (@pxref{Change Logs}).
  
  If you need to use non-ASCII characters, you should normally stick
! with one encoding, certainly within a single file.  UTF-8 is the best
! and prefered choice.
  
  
  @node Quote Characters