From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Mon Nov 15 2004 - 08:57:00 CST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:04 AM
> To: Asmus Freytag
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: Opinions on this Java URL?
>
>
...
>
> Like it or not, but nulls are part of almost all character
> sets, from the
> oldest ones to the most recent ones (with one notable
> exception in GSM text
> for SMS, where the null byte is a printable character, as GSM don't
> need/want data fillers). The support of ignorable padding
> characters will
> remain needed for long (or ever) in plain-texts, even if a
> plain-text *file*
> does not need it (there are other uses of plain-text than
> just complete
> files). Those many expecting that a file containing any null
> byte is not
> text but binary are restricting to the use of "text/plain" in
> MIME message
> formats.
Like it or not, C is not going to go away any time soon.
....
Jony
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