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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.58.23.166 with SMTP id n6mr7390446vef.13.1384734893051; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:34:53 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.108.232 with SMTP id hn8mr29976qeb.14.1384734893028; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:34:53 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.216.87.MISMATCH!n1no1940783qai.0!news-out.google.com!9ni30931qaf.0!nntp.google.com!n1no1940777qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:34:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=31.183.18.217; posting-account=fc1UmgoAAADREbhuD8e4smj7nsEdRFz9 NNTP-Posting-Host: 31.183.18.217 References: <73e0853b-454a-467f-9dc7-84ca5b9c29b2@googlegroups.com> <1ghx537y5gbfq.17oazom68d4n6.dlg@40tude.net> <9d00683c-949c-4e88-a161-ebd78b350d39@googlegroups.com> <1w23uq33ul2i8$.wzjpp3evot36.dlg@40tude.net> <5288c584$0$6639$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: strange behaviour of utf-8 files From: Stoik Injection-Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:34:53 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17712 Date: 2013-11-17T16:34:52-08:00 List-Id: W dniu niedziela, 17 listopada 2013 15:07:18 UTC+1 u=C5=BCytkownik Dmitry A= . Kazakov napisa=C5=82: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:32:55 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 > > On 16.11.13 16:55, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >=20 > >> As I said in order to avoid troubles, don't use anything but ASCII. >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > ASCII-ism is the soil in which dangerous bugs keep many things >=20 > > from working.(*) >=20 >=20 >=20 > On the contrary, it is a reasonable precaution against sloppy OSes (Linux= , >=20 > Windows) incapable to handle encoding safely [*]. The OP just ran into >=20 > that. If he followed the advise he would never have any problems of this >=20 > kind. The advice is: do not use cars, they are often badly manufactured and drive= rs can be mad. Go on foot, far from busy roads!=20 I suspect it is much better to press the companies to produce better OS'es = and compilers. People do use various languages and/or scripts. And seeing d= ozens of packages for handling strange characters without the possibility o= f using them in a natural manner is a bit frustrating.=20