From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 11:27:28 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <564fb62f1beb7fa0567be39098558195@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <20130502152006.GA490@polynum.com> References: <20130502132556.GA2653@polynum.com> <257b5f.1257db09.089d.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> <20130502145139.GB438@polynum.com> <20130502152006.GA490@polynum.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Octets regexp Topicbox-Message-UUID: 50fd473e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > For the moment, I don't want to change anything, I'm trying to be > convinced where the border has to be: "characters" (for me user > level) on the one side, octets strings on the other system and > library side (on a distributed system, it makes sense that filenames, > being userlevel nicknames be UTF-8---supposed to be UTF-8 without any > per filename codepage or whatever). there is currently no such distinction between user and library. this eliminates context. one never is confronted with, "oh, i can't call that because that's a user function, not a library function". - erik