speakup and vim problem with key echo

[Gaijin]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:04:57PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> This is an interesting area but isn't utf-8 becoming the defacto
> standard and the ultimately better way to go?

	I don't know about better, myself.  UTF uses twice as many bits 
as iso-115x. and while I may wish to support the new UTF format, I feel 
no need to work in it.  I just feel that wasting space is space wasted, 
both on my hard drives, no matter how big they get, and a waste of 
processing power.  My LiteTalk hardware synthesizer was made prior to 
UTF, and the computer will just have to convert everything from UTF back 
to iso-1159, just so I can hear the computer.  My computer doesn't need 
to be multilingual.  I only speak English, and for most things, I 
convert everything to plaintext.  It is guaranteed to work with every 
piece of equipment I own, takes little effort on the CPU's part to 
shovel it into any synthesizer, and takes up less space.  I figure with 
double the character bit-width, compressing a UTF file with gzip would 
take as much space as an uncompressed iso file.  I might as well go back 
to Windows, start over-clocking, and use a win-modem if I'm going to 
waste CPU cycles like that. ;p

				Michael