17 Feb
2004
17 Feb
'04
8:21 p.m.
At 01:20 PM 2/17/2004, Walter Landry wrote:
Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
Does that make sense?
Perfect sense. I was a bit concerned that you were going to do something like convert everything to UTF-8 or treat everything as a stream of bytes.
No, that was never a consideration. It would give only an illusion of solving the problem.
It sounds like you're foisting most of the responsibilities onto the programmer, which is fine with me.
I think of it as defaulting to something that is sensible for the operating system, but allowing the programmer to assume full responsibility if desired. --Beman