[ Unicode, UTF-{8,16}, BOMs, etc ] On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:58:29PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > complicated) "Local Variables:" marker near the end of the file; > other editors have similar, but of course incompatible, conventions > (I know Vim has one but I don't know what it looks like). It would > also be good to take advantage of the fact that 95+% of C source > files start with "/*", "//", "#i", or "#d" to distinguish ASCII > from EBCDIC. (This is in fact necessary in order to have any hope > of detecting and processing an editor's code page marker in an EBCDIC > source file.)
Is this really an important problem? EBCDIC is still around (barely), but code page markers in EBCDIC source files? Perhaps I'm missing something.