From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: strange behaviour of utf-8 files
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:07:18 +0100
Date: 2013-11-17T15:07:18+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k4o32tkp8lu4.1fuul1c08z90n$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5288c584$0$6639$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:32:55 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 16.11.13 16:55, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> As I said in order to avoid troubles, don't use anything but ASCII.
>
> ASCII-ism is the soil in which dangerous bugs keep many things
> from working.(*)
On the contrary, it is a reasonable precaution against sloppy OSes (Linux,
Windows) incapable to handle encoding safely [*]. The OP just ran into
that. If he followed the advise he would never have any problems of this
kind.
Using full Unicode in source files is a recipe for bugs intractable for
many program readers, like ones who would not guess 'a' and 'а' different
letters.
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* Preventing a file encoded as X, being read and written as if it were
encoded as Y.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-16 13:12 strange behaviour of utf-8 files Stoik
2013-11-16 13:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-16 15:09 ` Stoik
2013-11-16 15:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-17 13:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-11-17 14:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2013-11-17 17:19 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-11-17 18:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-17 19:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-11-17 20:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-18 8:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-11-18 9:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-18 10:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-11-18 8:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-11-18 10:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-18 13:05 ` G.B.
2013-11-18 15:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-18 15:51 ` G.B.
2013-11-18 17:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-18 0:34 ` Stoik
2013-11-16 17:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-11-17 10:38 ` Stoik
2013-11-16 15:12 ` Stoik
2013-11-16 15:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-17 11:12 ` Stoik
2013-11-22 1:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-11-22 3:02 ` Shark8
2013-11-22 11:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-11-23 4:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-12-06 2:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-11-16 20:06 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-11-17 10:34 ` Stoik
2013-11-22 0:53 ` Randy Brukardt
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