speakup and vim problem with key echo

[Rynhardt Kruger]

My understanding is that UTF-8 uses only one byte when the character is in the ascii range. 

Take care,

Rynhardt

* Gaijin <gaijin at clearwire.net> [100804 10:37]:
> 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
> 
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