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

[Andrew Suffield]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:13:49PM +0300, Marcus Sundman wrote:
> On Friday 27 August 2004 19:01, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 06:25:10PM +0300, Marcus Sundman wrote:
> > > The vast majority of programs assume input text files to be in the
> > > local system's default encoding. Therefore the files on disk should
> > > preferably use whatever happens to be the local system's default
> > > encoding. (In some files the encoding is part of the file's semantics,
> > > though, so such files should be left as they are.)
> >
> > Here's where you invented the problem. My editor picks the right
> > encoding for the file, and allows you to specify the encoding within
> > the file for the ambiguous cases.
> 
> Oh, my. Where do I begin?
> An editor cannot possibly know which encoding a file has.

Looks like you began with an empirically false statement. Mine does.

(I leave it to the peanut gallery to give a range of examples of ways
in which this can work)

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