Re: Removing the --enable-utf8 flag

Karl,

Your plan is the same as my plan. You're a mind-reading plagiator. Have
you no respect for intellectual property? I'm calling the RIAA and BSA.

Karl Fogel wrote:

>"Bill Tutt" <rassilon@lyra.org> writes:
>
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>>I think this is fine for Alpha. I'm not so sure for 1.0 though.
>>
>>
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>Why not for 1.0?
>

It should be quite O.K. and totally cool even for 1.0, if the locale
charset is an ASCII derivative. It will fail horribly in
EBCDIC-dereivative locales without translation.

>(I had been planning to leave it in permanently.)
>

+1. I for one am not about to lose sleep worrying about what happens to
people who insist on using ENCDIC and don't have the foresight to arm
themselves with libiconv.

>Thanks for the quick response,
>-K
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>
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>>> * Always attempt conversion. If the conversion fails (for example
>>> because the underlying xlation mechanism isn't working, as is
>>> currently the case), *then* check for non_ascii, and bomb only if
>>> there are illegal characters in the data. Otherwise, we proceed,
>>> effectively treating the data as if it were already UTF-8,
>>> because we know it's all safe ascii characters.
>>>
>>>

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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