From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:31:31 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20130502153131.GA1460@polynum.com> References: <20130502123825.GA1975@polynum.com> <20130502132556.GA2653@polynum.com> <20130502150829.GA435@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Octets regexp Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5101c39a-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C