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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7624df5e57d09688 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-10 07:23:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!213.73.101.75!eusc.inter.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: config files proposal Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <3CFA8E42.B7844253@san.rr.com> <3CFAEEB5.CE3041C2@san.rr.com> <3D03DE18.9031B0F5@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1023719032 22621 134.91.4.34 (10 Jun 2002 14:23:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:23:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25673 Date: 2002-06-10T14:23:52+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote: : : UTF-8 or UTF-16, as far as I understand. declares "external representation". External entities in UTF-8/16 must be read, others may. UTF-8 has the advantage of being stateless and compatible across wires. We often have , useless for anything outside "west-latin" tradition, but good and correct otherwise. -- georg