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On 06/06/2014 08:10 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>:
>> ASCII is *not* the state of "this string has no encoding" -- that
>> would be Unicode; a Unicode string, as a data type, has no encoding.
> 
> Huh?

It's this very fact that trips of JMF in his rants about FSR.  Thank you
to Ethan for putting it so succinctly.

What part of his statement are you saying "Huh?" about?