Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?

[Marcus Sundman]

On Friday 27 August 2004 21:23, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:20:00PM +0300, Marcus Sundman wrote:
> > On Friday 27 August 2004 19:52, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 06:50:23PM +0200, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
> > > > File's encoding is imho metadata as much as permisions are.
> > >
> > > It's not. Encoding is data.
> >
> > Oh, get a clue. And a dictionary. The encoding info is data about the
> > data that is the content of the file. "Data about data" is called
> > "metadata". "Encoding" is an attribute of the file, just as "filename"
> > and "permissions" are.
>
> And I repeat: encoding is data.

Yes, but it's also metadata. You said it isn't, but it is. Don't pretend to 
be more stupid than you are.


- Marcus Sundman