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From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security
Date: Mon,  2 Jul 2001 07:56:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0a0a01c102ee$135823e0$41734e81@oemcomputer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010701210144.24279d-100000@einstein.ssz.com>

Why stop at 64 bits per character? Why not go for 256, a 16x16
dot matrix of the ISO image for the character.  Perhaps with a
16-byte header with special information such as case, dialect,
diacritical marks, etc.

-rob




  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-02 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-02  1:38 okamoto
2001-07-02  2:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-07-02 11:56   ` rob pike [this message]
2001-07-02 13:20     ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-02 18:10 [9fans] " David Gordon Hogan
2001-07-02 19:09 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-02 15:02 Sape Mullender
2001-07-02 15:52 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-02 16:24 ` Sam Ducksworth
2001-07-02 12:01 nigel
2001-07-02 12:05 ` George Michaelson
2001-07-02 12:07 ` rob pike
2001-05-27 15:00 rob pike
2001-05-27  4:27 rob pike
2001-05-27  6:43 ` Richard Elberger
2001-05-29  9:17   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-06-29  9:23     ` Alex Danilo
2001-06-29 13:57       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-06-29 21:08         ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-27  0:52 Russ Cox
2001-05-26 23:02 jmk
2001-05-26 23:22 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-26 19:54 Mike Haertel
2001-05-26 22:47 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-26 23:23   ` Mike Haertel
2001-05-27  1:40     ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-28  4:40     ` Lucio De Re

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