Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Wichert Akkerman
2004-08-26T11:42:41Z

Previously Andrew Morton wrote:
> But I'll grant that one cannot go adding new metadata to, say, C files this
> way. I don't know how useful such a thing is though.

That is actually one of the few places where a bit of metadata would be
very useful. Right now there is no way to indicate in what encoding a
source is written: ascii, utf-8, ucs16, etc. are all possible. But a
compiler or interpreter has no good way to figure that out.

Wichert.

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