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From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject: Re: Language design
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:05:52 +0000 (UTC)
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On 11/9/2013 07:42, Wayne Werner wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Ben Finney wrote:
>>  The sooner we replace the erroneous
>>  ´text is ASCIIĦ in the common wisdom with ´text is UnicodeĦ, the
>>  better.
>
> I'd actually argue that it's better to replace the common wisdom with 
> "text is binary data, and we should normally look at that text through 
> Unicode eyes". A little less catchy, but more accurate ;)
>
> -W
>

"Text is unicode, but text files are binary, and need to be decoded on
read, and encoded on write.  Most other external textual data is also
binary, and similarly need to be converted before use"

-- 
DaveA