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Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
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Re: Bad Characters from Unicode


  • Subject: Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
  • From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:24:53 +0200

At 04:56 -0700 UTC, on 2007-10-05, Philip Aker wrote:

> On 2007-04-10, at 19:03, Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
>
>> [...] just "filename.U08" wouldn't tell you
>> whether it's a text file, a HTML file, a CSS file, a PHP, perl, sql
>> file, etc.
>
> That's essentially correct, but lots of apps scan the first few lines
> of the file and make a reasonable guess.

Sure, but when you've got a directory full of .utf8 files, how do you quickly
tell the HTML ones apart from the CSS ones, from the PHP and the Perl ones?

The OS could indicate such distinctions through icons, I suppose -- maybe
UTIs will get us there, some day (in October? :)).

[...]


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Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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