UTF-8 support not on the road map?

[Andrei Levin]

Tim Hubberstey wrote:
> At the risk of incurring the wrath of the list, I have to question the 
> importance of UTF-8 to a _programmer's_ editor. I'm not stating that 
> it isn't important, I'm just throwing this out as a discussion point 
> to see what the community thinks.
>
> So that you can see where I'm coming from, this is my profile:
> o English speaker
> o Primarily hardware languages (VHDL, Verilog, SystemC) plus C and 
> shell scripts
> o Experience almost totally limited to tools produced in 
> English-speaking countries
>
My profile:
* Italian, Russian, English speaker
* Python, Php and shell scripts

> So... Is UTF-8 support actually important for a programmer's editor or 
> is it a "nice to have" feature that can be moved further down the 
> priorities list?
There is no way to use an editor for web programming if there is no 
UTF-8 support.

Andrei