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UTF-8, Unicode.

• jancsika 9y ago
  And how do you represent line breaks?
  • davidsong 9y ago
    CRLF unless your audience mostly use Mac or Linux.
    • zlynx 9y ago
      It seems to me the only thing on Windows that cares about CRLF is Notepad. Everything else works fine with just LF. A lot of new Windows software even seems to ship with LF format configuration files. Especially games, probably because it is so common to have a Windows game with Linux backend servers, so the developers are working with both. So anyway, I'd go with just LF unless your software is Windows only.
  • nvader 9y ago
    For most users, you press enter/return on your keyboard. A lot of text editors will detect line endings when opening a file and use that going forward.
• partycoder 9y ago
  What if you are using another encoding that already works for you? Same as real life alphabets and such?
  • rhencke 9y ago
    Convert it to UTF-8 or UTF-16 and call it a day. Let the fractured world of code pages rest in peace. Unicode may not be perfect, but it sure beats the alternatives.
    • kmicklas 9y ago
      > or UTF-16 Please no. UTF-16 needs to die a painful death.