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Jamie Lokier wrote:
| David Masover wrote:
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|>Isn't the kernel faced with the same issues here as userland programs
|>without meta attribute support? How do you read the META element before
|>you know the encoding?
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| Ideally you guess whether it's ASCII-compatible, EBCDIC-compatible, or
| UTF16 or UCS4 :) Then you scan for a META element. I suspect everyone
| only tries for ASCII compatibilty. There's a bit of guessing
| involved. Every parser has its own way - it's not well defined
And though it's nice for that guessing to be in one place, I'd rather
not guess at all. Especially when we don't have to -- see below.
| No. File descriptors are pure binary.
|>Otherwise I agree -- the html editor should do that. Although I'd hate
|>to see Vim patched to do that. Maybe save it as file/utf8?
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| file/utf8 would be wrong.
Why? No, I don't mean as a MIME type ... literally do
vim foo.txt/utf8
to open a file named "foo.txt" and save it as "utf8".
That means that if vim doesn't automatically know how to tell a file
what its encoding is -- since vim already knows its encoding. But it
provides a generic way for a user to tell the text editor to tell the
FS, all in one easy step, how to save the file.
It has its drawback -- it can really only support encoding -- or only
one save option -- unless we're truly using files to send queries to the
fs -- that is, something like foo.txt/writer/encoding=utf8&eol=crlf
I think that's feasable, and I think similar things (stranger things,
like SQL queries) have been planned for reiser5 and such.
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