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Re: Characters saved mismatch?
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Yuri Khan |
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Re: Characters saved mismatch? |
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Sun, 7 May 2017 15:56:32 +0700 |
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Angelo Graziosi
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Wrote ‘c:/msys64/tmp/foo.text’ (8 characters)
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> but
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> ls -l foo.text
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bingo bongo 10 7 mag 01.07 foo.text
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> 10 bytes!
You are comparing a character count against a byte count. Well *of
course* they are going to be different. The assumption “one character
is encoded by one byte” has been false for quite a while now.