From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:10:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010702181031.EECB9199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
>>At 256 bits per character I think xml is an excellent idea.
>
>Perpetuating the joke, I know, but I have a question.
>
>If one is going to represent the character set using XML, then
>how does one represent the characters which make up the XML?
>
>Oh, I know, using 7 bit ASCII?
>
>Wouldn't it be so much easier if we were still using the PDP-10,
>which had variable size bytes, up to 36 bits in size?
Obviously we should not set a fixed character size, like 256 bits,
but migrate to a variable length encoding, where the first 16 bits
describes the length of the character.
HTH. HAND.
next reply other threads:[~2001-07-02 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-02 18:10 David Gordon Hogan [this message]
2001-07-02 19:09 ` Dan Cross
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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
2001-07-02 1:38 okamoto
2001-07-02 2:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-07-02 11:56 ` 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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