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

[Andrew Suffield]

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.

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