From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Cc: "\"Martin v. Löwis\"" <martin@v.loewis.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:25:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <432B1C15.4060702@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509162029470.5708@be1.lrz>
Bodo Eggert wrote:
>
> It should, but as long as old programs are still around, we'll have both
> and need a marker to distinguish them. Otherwise we'll be stuck with
> legacy scripts for a long time.
>
You don't have markers (although they're defined, see ISO 2022) for your
8-bit encodings, and *THEY'RE THE ONES THAT NEED TO BE DISTINGUISHED.*
Flagging UTF-8, especially with the BOM (as opposed to the ISO 2022
signature, <ESC>%G) is pointless in the context, since you still can't
distinguish your arbitrary number of legacy encodings.
Oh, yes, and try to stick ISO 2022 signatures in scripts or whatnot, and
you can see what current software does with a signature standard that
dates back to the 1970's.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 19:25 UTC|newest]
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2005-09-16 18:02 ` [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts Bodo Eggert
2005-09-16 18:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-16 18:57 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-09-16 19:08 ` Martin Mares
2005-09-16 19:25 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-09-16 19:57 ` Horst von Brand
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2005-09-17 6:28 ` "Martin v. Löwis"
2005-09-17 22:31 ` D. Hazelton
2005-09-18 3:45 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-19 0:14 ` D. Hazelton
2005-09-18 6:58 ` "Martin v. Löwis"
2005-09-19 0:31 ` D. Hazelton
2005-09-17 17:16 ` Bodo Eggert
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2005-09-16 22:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2005-09-18 19:23 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-09-18 21:03 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-09-19 19:37 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-09-18 22:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-19 6:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-19 4:54 ` "Martin v. Löwis"
2005-09-19 8:26 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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2005-08-14 20:22 ` Lee Revell
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