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carlmr on Nov 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

I agree, especially as UTF-8 is standard inside Rust. Also the encoding library would make it easy enough to support other formats.

I'm not sure if the editor streams or loads into RAM right now. If it already loads into RAM this is a tiny change.

https://crates.io/crates/encoding

Line endings should also be unproblematic.

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