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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ... in the Kingdom of Sources
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:56:33 +1000
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i totally agree.  give me a peter face rather than an IO error.
tho there may be clinical examples of clever uses of ANSI-C
wide characters i see a whole useable system based on the
pragmatic use of Runes.

> surely it's not a matter of encouraging or discouraging the use of
> erroneous data, but simply of making as best a job of dealing with the
> situations we encounter.
>
> i'm certainly glad that when i accidentally browse a piece of latin-1
> text in plan 9, i get almost all the text, with an occasional error
> character thrown in.