Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]
Groups > comp.lang.forth > #60127
| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 |
| Date | 2017-06-01 06:23 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| Message-ID | <2017Jun1.082346@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <c2f7f0f3-da8f-445c-a070-6a73dfb096bf@googlegroups.com> <og7eih$csg$1@dont-email.me> <2017May26.113907@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <og96ol$789$1@dont-email.me> <4d0ba5aa-dde6-42b1-8583-92345fdae8b0@googlegroups.com> |
Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> writes:
>That's exactly my point. When in Rome, do as the Romans. The UTF-8 BOM used=
> as a magic number is really a magic number. Tools in the chain may magical=
>ly insert it without you seeing it. Windows apps now, maybe web apps later.=
> So, why not just adopt it and move on?
I am in Vienna, not in Rome. The main advantage of UTF-8 is a certain
amount of ASCII compatibility. Just because Microsoft wants to break
that compatibility does not mean we should follow.
- anton
--
M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html
New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html
EuroForth 2017: http://www.euroforth.org/ef17/
Back to comp.lang.forth | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread
RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-24 16:17 -0700
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-25 09:32 +0000
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-25 12:09 +0100
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 09:40 -0700
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 09:51 -0700
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-25 21:28 +0100
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-26 09:39 +0000
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-26 13:27 +0100
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-26 14:56 +0000
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-31 21:55 -0700
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-06-01 06:23 +0000
Re: RFD: Patching INCLUDED for UTF-8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-26 09:45 +0000
csiph-web