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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:34:36 +0200
Date: 2006-09-14T08:29:26+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158215676.19219.32.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <GZYNg.16394$E02.6228@newsb.telia.net>

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:28 +0000, Björn Persson wrote:


> Theoretically it's better to store the encoding outside the file so that 
> you can know what encoding to use *before* you start reading the file. 
> In practice this is usually impossible. [...] Thus it's pretty much necessary to 
> specify the encoding inside each file, like XML does.

Yes, though Ada offers a standard notion for connecting a compilation
unit with pragmas. You needn't necessarily place them right next to
the source. So perhaps there is yet another option for
interchanging sources between compilers, operating environments,
etc. Somewhat like SGML, which I believe has ESIS for data interchange
(can be used with ASN.1 IIRC), we could adopt an extended
"SRC archive" format. It simply traces encodings, has some checksums,
carries PGP signatures, and so on.

Or use Strings that carry their encoding with them ;-)






  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-14  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-11  8:24 Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows Manuel Collado
2006-09-11 10:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-11 13:49   ` Avatox 1.1: " Manuel Collado
2006-09-11 16:43     ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-11 17:50     ` Björn Persson
2006-09-12  0:06       ` Marc A. Criley
2006-09-12  8:35         ` Manuel Collado
2006-09-13  0:01   ` Avatox 1.0: " Randy Brukardt
2006-09-13  9:01     ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-13 19:28       ` Björn Persson
2006-09-14  6:34         ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2006-09-14 23:09           ` Björn Persson
2006-09-14 22:13         ` Björn Persson
2006-09-16  7:40         ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-16  9:43           ` Björn Persson
2006-09-16  9:59             ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-16 11:15               ` Björn Persson
2006-09-17  9:30             ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-13 10:32     ` Manuel Collado
2006-09-13 18:28       ` Björn Persson
2006-09-14  8:11         ` Manuel Collado
2006-09-13 23:05       ` Randy Brukardt
2006-09-13 11:04     ` vgodunko
2006-09-14  8:56       ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-14 21:16         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-14 22:55           ` Björn Persson
2006-09-15 23:15             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16  7:38             ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-17 19:41               ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-15  5:47           ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-15 23:16             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16  7:31               ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-17 19:43                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-15  9:41           ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-15 23:28             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16  9:52               ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-16 10:31               ` Björn Persson
2006-09-17 19:57                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-18  0:06                   ` Björn Persson
2006-09-18 20:14                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16  5:10             ` Simon Wright
2006-09-15 18:11           ` Pascal Obry
2006-09-15 18:53             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-09-15 22:29               ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-16  7:46                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-09-15 23:35             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-15  5:34         ` Simon Wright
2006-09-12  9:52 ` Stephen Leake
2006-09-19  1:16   ` Marc A. Criley
2006-09-19  9:20     ` Stephen Leake
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