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Re: [Nmh-workers] charsets
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Lyndon Nerenberg |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] charsets |
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Wed, 6 Feb 2013 19:27:57 -0800 |
On 2013-02-06, at 7:05 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:
>> Ditch stdio in favour of bio and we are 90% of the way
>> there. Incorporate bio in the build tree and we have no external
>> dependencies.
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>> [1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/bio
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> Hm. It's not clear to me how much bio helps here. We don't ...
> in general ... care about runes. The characters it cares about for
> parsing & the like are ASCII. Everything else is basically an opaque
> blob. Converting from q-b, base64, and non-native character sets are
> what we really care about.
The thought is that we move to utf-8 as the native internal representation of
all internal content. The switch to bio makes that happen.
- [Nmh-workers] hardcoding en_US.UTF-8 in test cases, Oliver Kiddle, 2013/02/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] hardcoding en_US.UTF-8 in test cases, Ken Hornstein, 2013/02/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] hardcoding en_US.UTF-8 in test cases, Ken Hornstein, 2013/02/06
- [Nmh-workers] charsets, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2013/02/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] charsets, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2013/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] charsets, Ken Hornstein, 2013/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] charsets, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2013/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] charsets, Oliver Kiddle, 2013/02/07
Re: [Nmh-workers] hardcoding en_US.UTF-8 in test cases, Oliver Kiddle, 2013/02/07
Re: [Nmh-workers] hardcoding en_US.UTF-8 in test cases, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2013/02/08