[ 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.


Reply via email to