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docs(web): Rephrase introduction about --input-encoding
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k-takata committed Nov 7, 2019
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Japanese programmers sometimes use the Japanese language in source
code comments. Of course, it is not limited to Japanese. People may
use their own native language and in such cases encoding becomes an
issue.
People may use their own native language in source code comments (or
sometimes in identifiers) and in such cases encoding may become an issue.
Nowadays UTF-8 is the most widely used encoding, but some source codes
still use legacy encodings like latin1, cp932 and so on. These options
are useful for such files.

ctags doesn't consider the input encoding; it just reads input as a
sequence of bytes and uses them as is when writing tags entries.
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