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Bart Lateur
Date:
September 30, 2000 13:12
Subject:
Re: (random) musings on I/O disciplines
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sthctsc52d27dob8lv84d3eab075qi98hm@4ax.com
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:56:37 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:

>My gut feel is that there'll be a "default encoding" for filehandles and we 
>*won't* try and get clever.

My gut feeling says that the text read from file should be treated as
native text, and should remain native text. I want plain Mac text files,
and plain Mac text, on a Mac. Sure, I like the idea of converting
ISO-Latin-1 text files into Mac format or back, or turn any kind of text
into UTF8 (the real thing, not native text encoded as UTF8). But it
should be my call.

-- 
	Bart.

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