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demerphq

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May 20, 2008 05:13

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Re: on broken manpages, trolling, inconsistent implementation and the difficulty to fix bugs

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2008/5/20 demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>:
> I think Marc is right, the utf8 flag being off doesn't say "this data
> is latin1" and the utf8 flag being on doesn't say "this data is
> Unicode". The flag instead says (when off) "this is array of
> characters" or "this is an array of integers encoded as utf8" (when
  ^^^^^^^^^^

I meant octets/bytes there.

> on).  The additional step of ascribing a character set to the encoding
> is incorrect, and one that evolves out of the heritage of supporting
> character set style operations on pure octet encodings.

Cheers,
yves

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