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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: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:43:53 -0400

Uh-huh.  So how does the os know?


On 10/5/07, Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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