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Subject: Re: Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 09:43 +0000, Bj=C3=B6rn Persson wrote:

> > The technique employed is called "extended
> > attributes" and is available for all modern operating systems.
>=20
> Will editors, compilers, preprocessors et cetera find the encoding=20
> setting in the extended attributes and obey it?
> [...]
>=20
> 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.