begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:57:43PM -0800: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > >(If we're going to throw out ASCII, we might as well throw out stuff > >like TCP/IP -- it's old, non-optimum, and ubiquituous, and so it is > >obviously in need of replacement....) > > You talk like UTF-8 throws out ASCII. It is, in fact, backward > compatible with ASCII unless the program has horribly braindead text > processing facilities.
What, like masking with 0x7F? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. (Then again, I basically got started on PRIMES, which set the 'unused' bit to 1, as ASCII only used 7 anyway.) -- Most software seems to be brain-dead in one way or another. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
