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: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-01 08:53:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed Date: 01 Jun 2002 11:46:35 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (skates.gsfc.nasa.gov) Message-ID: References: <39ee2480.0205282322.3bbd4673@posting.google.com> <839J8.1076$r5.175696924@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1022946840 4131 128.183.220.71 (1 Jun 2002 15:54:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Jun 2002 15:54:00 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25155 Date: 2002-06-01T15:54:00+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" writes: > 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. To some extent that's true for me as well. But it is an important distinction. One of the reasons to require ASCII is because you can use "any old text editor" to fix the config file if you need to. It is not the case that "any old text editor" can edit unicode; I don't think Windows notepad can. Emacs can, sometimes, if you're lucky and the moon is blue :). -- -- Stephe