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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] UTF-8 criticism?
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:27:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f04904071811272fb08960@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e35c06204071810312daa31a9@mail.gmail.com>

utf-8 is an exchange format and that's mostly how it's used.
the few programs that do any analysis on utf-8 in memory
do so usually as a side effect of whatever else is going on.
for instance, they might call cleanname() or some other
such file name-processing routine.

his criticisms are on target but building utf-8 routines is
not intellectually challenging, nor is it a big job.

in short, it doesn't really matter.

-rob


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-18 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-18 17:31 Jack Johnson
2004-07-18 18:27 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2004-07-18 18:39 ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-18 19:05   ` Rob Pike
2004-07-18 19:06     ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-19  9:00       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-07-19 15:34         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-07-18 19:34     ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-19  7:40       ` Charles Forsyth
2004-07-19  8:39         ` Geoff Collyer
2004-07-19 21:01     ` Joel Salomon
2004-07-19 21:22       ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-19 21:35         ` Joel Salomon
2004-07-19 21:56           ` Joel Salomon
2004-07-19 21:42       ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-19 21:43         ` Tengwar " Joel Salomon
2004-07-20  8:32       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-07-19 21:35 ` rog

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