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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:25:57 -0700
Subject: Re: Language design
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Ben Finney wrote:
>> >  The sooner we replace the erroneous
>> >  =93text is ASCII=94 in the common wisdom with =93text is Unicode=94, =
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 ;)
>
> No, that's inaccurate. A sequence of bytes is binary data. Unicode is
> not binary data.

Well now, this is an area that is not actually well-defined.  I would
say 16-bit Unicode is binary data if you're encoding in base 65,536,
just as 8-bit ascii is binary data if you're encoding in base-256.
Which is to say:  there is no intervening data to suggest a TYPE.
--=20
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington