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   Hey Maurice!   
      
   On Fri, Apr 06 1900 20:46:12 -0600, you wrote:   
      
    > It's varied over the last year from internal bleeding to potential    
    > cancerous polyps.  The latest scan (ultrasound) showed a polyp on my    
    > gall bladder which will need to be checked out.  So far anything    
    > they've found has proved to be benign or cauterized in the case of    
    > internal bleeding.  No real fix yet and I have to get blood    
    > transfusions far too often.  :-(   
      
   Are the transfusions for blood loss, or that it's not getting filtered   
   properly? I take it they've already looked at your liver and kidneys?   
      
    > Whoa!  Seems to me that they were recommending UTF-8 adoption further    
    > back than 2019.  Not having anything to do with MS products I can    
    > only account for what I've heard through the grapevine over the    
    > years.   
      
   Seems as though it has always been UTF-16 after UCS 2, although since WinXP   
   they introduced code page 65001, which was designated for UTF-8.. so maybe   
   that's about the time the issues started to decrease. It wasn't until 2019   
   that MS started recommending programmers use UTF-8, and only now in Windows 11   
   some system files are required to use UTF-8 and do not require a Byte Order   
   Mark. Seems as though they had slapped in a workaround back in 2005-ish, and   
   hadn't really done anything about it for some 14 years, or so.   
      
   Regards,   
   Nick   
      
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