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What would break if the C locale was UTF-8 instead of ASCII?

The C locale is defined to use the ASCII charset and POSIX does not provide a way to use a charset without changing the locale as well. What would happen if the encoding of C were switched to UTF-8 ...
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How to replace all percent-encoded UTF-8 substrings with plain UTF-8 text?

I've got a html file with a lot of %-encoded UTF-8 text in URLs. For example "%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D1%8B" stands for "ресурсы" ("resources" in Russian). The task is to replace all ...
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How can I set VIM's default encoding to UTF-8?

I'd like to contribute to an open source project providing translated strings. One of their requirements is that contributors must use UTF-8 as the encoding for the PO files. I'm using VIM 7.3 on ...