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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:59:11 +0200
Date: 2006-09-16T11:57:42+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158400751.12070.63.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <QGPOg.16659$E02.6458@newsb.telia.net>

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 09:43 +0000, Björn Persson wrote:

> > The technique employed is called "extended
> > attributes" and is available for all modern operating systems.
> 
> Will editors, compilers, preprocessors et cetera find the encoding 
> setting in the extended attributes and obey it?
> [...]
> 
> In short, is it really possible *in practice*?

As long as programmers choose deliberate obstruction,
they construct the truth "not possible in practice" :/
Meanwhile HTTP, XML, and ASN.1 are demonstrating that
it is quite possible to inform the other end of the
data type and encoding used in data transfers.






  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-16  9:59 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
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 [this message]
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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