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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?
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Magnus Therning |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings? |
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Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:23:54 +0200 |
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:56:15PM +0300, Marcus Sundman wrote:
>On Friday 27 August 2004 21:25, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:13:49PM +0300, Marcus Sundman wrote:
>> > An editor cannot possibly know which encoding a file has.
>>
>> Looks like you began with an empirically false statement. Mine does.
>
>You are kidding, right? If you grok lisp then surely you can't be /that/
>stupid.
>Well, I can explain it anyway. Let's take some simple example. Let's say you
>have a file beginning with the bytes 0xFE and 0xFF. There is no way that
>your editor could know if this file is a big-endian UTF-16 file or an
>ISO-8859-1 file starting with "thorn yuml" or something completely
>different in some other encoding. Or let's consider the ISO-8859 encodings,
>which share the control characters. There is no way to know which one a
>file uses.
>
>> (I leave it to the peanut gallery to give a range of examples of ways
>> in which this can work)
>
>I don't know what a "peanut gallery" is, but if you know how to do
>something which cannot be done then please share that with us so that
>we may update our apparently outdated rules of logic.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=peanut%20gallery
/M
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Andrew Suffield, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Tom Lord, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Andrew Suffield, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Tom Lord, 2004/08/28
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Aaron Bentley, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/28
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?,
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