From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:21:40 +0200
Date: 2010-08-21T08:21:36+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18eeiygku1nbd.1b6dj3nhx908w.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.vhrad6mjule2fv@garhos
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:38:20 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:
> I could not avoid two questions: why no UTF-32 ?
Is there anybody who would ever use it?
> Quote:
> http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html
>> A: A byte order mark (BOM) consists of the character code U+FEFF at the
>> beginning of a data stream
>
> This is a FAQ at Unicode.org; but all references (Unicode PDF files, XML
> reference, HTTML reference) all says the same.
That is all OS's business, how does it handle the content. So if it belongs
anywhere then to stream I/O + directories.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-20 21:38 Ada 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-20 21:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-21 6:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2010-08-21 7:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-08-21 8:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-22 18:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-08-22 19:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-22 20:40 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-08-23 10:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-23 22:28 ` Randy Brukardt
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