Re: A standard package for config files is needed

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

You'll have to forgive us old timers. When we say "ASCII" what we mean is
"Text". So Unicode in some manner would be (at least in my mind)
fundamentally the same thing.

Not that I am more in favor of it if the format is Unicode instead of
ASCII - I still think it ought to be just a Stream file of a data structure
held in memory. But if the consensus is to put it in some text format, you
can go ahead and make it 32-bit Unicode so you can support hieroglyphics and
ancient sandscrit and I'll still be calling it ASCII :-)

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
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>
> Not only that. It seems quite plausible, with Ada being capable of
> handling a substantial subset of Unicode, and for more than one
> other reason, to store something more than
> (US) American Standard Code for Information Interchange
> wich isn't even enough for directly storing all US american words,
> let alone anything that might be needed in Canada, Brazil,
> Russia, France, Korea, Egypt, Japan, ...
> (E.g. error messages.)
>