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Re: ASCII vs. MacRoman (was Re: Standard Additions 'read' command - basic questions)
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Re: ASCII vs. MacRoman (was Re: Standard Additions 'read' command - basic questions)


  • Subject: Re: ASCII vs. MacRoman (was Re: Standard Additions 'read' command - basic questions)
  • From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:01:49 -0800
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On 1/20/2004 11:08, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:

> The "ASCII"
> names were selected long before I came to Apple -- at this point, I
> consider both the names and the functions themselves to be completely
> morally corrupt. Some day we'll introduce proper Unicode versions, and
> then hopefully we'll be able to take the "ASCII" versions out behind
> the barn and shoot them.

That will be nice, but meanwhile...
where on Infinite Loop is the barn? ;-)

--John
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