From: David Starner (starner@okstate.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 15:14:20 EST
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:47:43AM -0800, Markus Scherer wrote:
> The fact is that Windows uses UTF-8 and UTF-16 plain text files with
> signatures (BOMs) very simply, gracefully, and successfully. It has applied
> what I called the "pragmatic" approach here for about 10 years. It just
> works.
It just works in an environment where relatively few documents are plain
text, and that doesn’t use pipes of text as universal glue. C has been
described as a (C)haracter processing language; whether or not that’s
accurate, Awk and Perl certainly are; these are all Unix programming
languages, and at the heart of what Unix is. The simple Unix program has
a stream of text coming in and a stream of text going out, whereas the
simple Windows program has a window. What works for Windows may very
well not work for Unix.
-- David Starner - starner@okstate.edu Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom-- A field where a thousand corpses lie. -- Stephen Crane, "War is Kind"
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