From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jpl.jpl at gmail.com (John P. Linderman) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:31:09 -0500 Subject: [COFF] Was [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab In-Reply-To: <20210311211838.Z2QAs%steffen@sdaoden.eu> References: <20210311211838.Z2QAs%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Message-ID: On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 4:18 PM Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > John P. Linderman wrote in > : > |The tab/detab horse was still twitching, so I decided to beat it a little > |more. > | > |Doug's claim that tabs saving space was an urban legend didn't ring true, > |but betting again Doug is a good way to get poor quick. > > Not really. I mean, i do not insist of this, but i looked at the > numbers. And despite col(1) 2.36.2 giving the wrong line when > failing to dig a LATIN1 in UTF-8 (should be 7, gave 11), when > i sum up the total of 8: in an old project with tests, > documentation etc. here the output is 1044401. This is without > generated data. > I'm not certain what you are referring to by "Not Really". But there is a general issue about the ability of historical commands (like "ed") to properly handle unicode. I would expect that many early commands do very poorly. -- jpl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: