On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:47:43AM -0800, Markus Scherer wrote: > The fact is that Windows uses UTF-8 and UTF-16 plain text files with > signatures (BOMs) very simply, gracefully, and successfully. It has applied > what I called the "pragmatic" approach here for about 10 years. It just > works.
It just works in an environment where relatively few documents are plain text, and that doesn’t use pipes of text as universal glue. C has been described as a (C)haracter processing language; whether or not that’s accurate, Awk and Perl certainly are; these are all Unix programming languages, and at the heart of what Unix is. The simple Unix program has a stream of text coming in and a stream of text going out, whereas the simple Windows program has a window. What works for Windows may very well not work for Unix. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom-- A field where a thousand corpses lie. -- Stephen Crane, "War is Kind"
