Martin J. Dürst, Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:00:42 +0900:
On 2012/07/17 23:11, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
Martin J. Dürst, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:49:47 +0900:
On 2012/07/17 17:22, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
that a page with strict ASCII characters inside could still
contain character entities/references
Hello Doug,
On 2012/07/18 0:35, Doug Ewell wrote:
For those who haven't yet had enough of this debate yet, here's a link
to an informative blog (with some informative comments) from Michael
Kaplan:
Every character has a story #4: U+feff (alternate title: UTF-8 is the
BOM, dude!)
On 2012/07/18 16:35, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
Martin J. Dürst, Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:00:42 +0900:
The best reason is simply that nobody should be using
crutches as long as they can walk with their own legs.
Crutches, in that sense, is only about authoring convenience. And, of
course, it is a
Martin,
Martin J. Dürst, Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:05:40 +0900:
On 2012/07/18 4:35, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
But is the Windows Notepad really to blame?
Pretty much so. There may have been other products from Microsoft
that also did it, but with respect to forcing browsers and XML
parsers to
Martin J. Dürst, Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:20:31 +0900:
On 2012/07/18 16:35, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
Martin J. Dürst, Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:00:42 +0900:
The best reason is simply that nobody should be using
crutches as long as they can walk with their own legs.
Crutches, in that sense, is only
Hello Leif,
I think that more and more, we are on the wrong mailing list.
Regards, Martin.
On 2012/07/18 18:47, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
Martin J. Dürst, Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:20:31 +0900:
On 2012/07/18 16:35, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
Martin J. Dürst, Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:00:42 +0900:
Except that the internet is almost unusable without cookies
and scripting, lynx(1) works very well, too, if the ncursesw
library is linked against (and the terminal font supports
Unicode characters). Funny that it writes garbage for
|htmlbodypä.ü.ö./p/body/html
but uses UTF-8 by default for
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:45:59 +0200
From: Steven Atreju snatr...@googlemail.com
To: Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 BOM (Re: Charset declaration in HTML)
Doug Ewell wrote:
|For those who haven't yet had enough of this debate yet, here's a link
Steven Atreju, Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:40:30 +0200:
Except that the internet is almost unusable without cookies
and scripting, lynx(1) works very well, too, if the ncursesw
library is linked against (and the terminal font supports
Unicode characters). Funny that it writes garbage for
Steven Atreju snatreju at googlemail dot com wrote:
Funny that a program that cannot handle files larger than 0x7FFF
bytes (laste time i've used it, 95B) has such a large impact.
Notepad hasn't had this limitation since Windows Me. That was many, many
years ago.
--
Doug Ewell | Thornton,
On Jul 18, 2012, at 4:21 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
On my OS X 10.7 computer, then TextEdit does sniff UTF-8 (without the
BOM).
It does indeed have a sniffing feature, though it also appears to use the
com.apple.TextEncoding extended attribute, when available (and which it,
itself, will
And those early versions of Notepad for 16/32-bit Windows were not
even Unicode compliant (the support for Unicode was minimalist, in
fact Unicode was only partly supported on top of the old ANSI/OEM
APIs; without support for the filesystem, and lots of quirks at the
kernel lelevel caused by
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