> > is your proposal > > - to change programs that take regular expressions to be exceptions to > > the plan 9 text model, or > > No: to have a libregexp being agnostic about any encoding. The tools can > stay, for user, the same, simply libregexp would not be "text" based but > octets based.
there's always an encoding. > > - to change the plan 9 text model > > Neither. The "text" model is a user interface. My question is simply how > is it difficult to have an alternative, special purpose, user interface, > that do not have the UTF-8 filter for input from and output to the user > interface. i see we're at an impass. since i don't agree that utf-8 is a user interface thing. it's more entrenched than that. why don't you code something up? - erik
