On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The average user does not even /know/ what a charset is.
Because for the average user, there is no need.
Part of the HTML5 standard is how to guess at charsets, and when to
automatically use a superset instead of the de
On Oct 3, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
In order to work, the actual name must be preserved, or if
translated, must be a reversible, 1-to-1 translation. A lot of
discussion here has talked about reversible translations, but
haven't noted the requirement that it be 1-to-1... and i
2008/10/3 Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> My understanding of the Posix file names is that any byte values are valid
> except "/" and null. Is this a correct understanding?
Yes (well, names "." and ".." are reserved, and there might be length
restrictions).
> The UTF-8b proposal seems to
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On approximately 10/3/2008 12:53 PM, came the following characters from the
> keyboard of James Y Knight:
>>
>> On Oct 3, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>>>
>>> In order to work, the actual name must be preserved
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On approximately 10/3/2008 2:36 PM, came the following characters from the
> keyboard of Adam Olsen:
>>
>> UTF-8b produces an *invalid* unicode sequence, via lone scalars. Any
>> attempt to encode or decode using a valida
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On approximately 10/3/2008 4:54 PM, came the following characters from the
> keyboard of Adam Olsen:
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>
> OK, so UTF-8b is not Unicode, eithe
