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From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Octets regexp
Date: Thu,  2 May 2013 17:31:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130502153131.GA1460@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8aecdc9b2e88ca91a3730e70e1fef1c@ladd.quanstro.net>

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:19:38AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> the plan 9 model is that all text is utf-8, with the exception of
> internal encodings which may be Runes.
>
> is your proposal
> - to change programs that take regular expressions to be exceptions to
> the plan 9 text model, or

No: to have a libregexp being agnostic about any encoding. The tools can
stay, for user, the same, simply libregexp would not be "text" based but
octets based.

> - to change the plan 9 text model

Neither. The "text" model is a user interface. My question is simply how
is it difficult to have an alternative, special purpose, user interface,
that do not have the UTF-8 filter for input from and output to the user
interface.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-02 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-02 12:38 tlaronde
2013-05-02 12:48 ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 13:25   ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 13:43     ` Tristan
2013-05-02 14:19       ` Tristan
2013-05-02 14:51       ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 15:02         ` Bence Fábián
2013-05-02 15:20           ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 15:27             ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 15:10         ` Kurt H Maier
2013-05-02 15:21           ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 13:44     ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 14:43       ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 14:58     ` a
2013-05-02 15:08       ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 15:19         ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 15:31           ` tlaronde [this message]
2013-05-02 16:53             ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 18:59               ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 18:45           ` dexen deVries
2013-05-02 19:04             ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 19:22               ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 19:39                 ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 20:13                   ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 20:17                   ` 9p-st
2013-05-03 11:16                     ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 13:15                       ` Tristan
2013-05-03 16:33                         ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 16:16 ` tlaronde

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