<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear coreboot folks,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">lately even long time contributors started to send messages to the list,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">which were not just plain text but included UTF-8.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Besides that </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">UTF-8</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> for text only adds advantage in rare cases,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">it also increases message size, since it can grow the size of a single</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">printable character by a factor of four. </span></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">...</span></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, sans-serif">---</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Paul, I'll make sure not to use HTML if you can avoid UTF-8 :-)</font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, sans-serif">ron</font></div></div>