From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,29495b0e9519b616 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-13 18:46:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news2.telebyte.nl!news.completel.fr!ircam.fr!freenix!skynet.be!news.algonet.se!algonet!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!217.209.241.173.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Persson Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin_1 and portability Message-ID: <20031214034629.3960d5a8.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> References: X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 02:46:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1071369989 217.209.116.179 (Sun, 14 Dec 2003 03:46:29 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 03:46:29 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3456 Date: 2003-12-14T02:46:29+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 15:24:56 -0000 "amado.alves" wrote: > >> Of course AdaOS will do the right thing :-) >=20 > >Now I'm curious. What is the right thing to do? >=20 > Hmm... good point :-) 24-bit Unicode everywhere inside the system, and > absolutely flawless converters to/from all formats? Imagine a file server running on AdaOS in a heterogenous network. Let's say files are served with SMB (Microsoft's protocol), so that both Windows, Mac and Unix clients can connect. I don't think SMB lets the server ask the clients what operating system they are running, and I'd be very surprised if it has a method of specifying whether a file is text or not. Even if SMB can do that, the client operating systems usually won't know what kind of data is in the files that various programs produce, so they can't tell the server. As a result, the file server can't know which files should be converted, it can't know which format to expect from a certain client, and it can't know which format a certain client needs; and there's not much AdaOS can do to help. Bj=F6rn Persson