Giacomo A. Catenazzi dixit: >> Not going to happen, it’s not binary-safe. (I fought that in >> MirBSD with the OPTU-8/16 encoding scheme.) > > Why not? Note that usual functions work on bytes
Not really. The difference between 'tr u x' on binary files can, depending on the implementation of tr (if it does 'tr ¥ €' correctly in an UTF-8 locale), trash it because it must use mbsrtowcs then, which is, by POSIX, required to fail for non-representable strings. In MirBSD, we have solved that by clever use of the PUA. //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
