Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
- Subject: Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:12:18 -0500
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Philip Aker <email@hidden> wrote:
> Didn't I just say that in my analogy? Midi describes its terms very
> specifically. Notes are mapped to one scalar value but that which
> makes up a note message is a code point. I'm just making the analogy
> to a more general concept beneficial across a spectrum of uses, not
> descending into the minutiae of a particular implementation. Actually
> wishing more to trace the origin of the idea. Which may be in
> Frequency Shift Key Modulation for all I know.
Well, variable-length encoding is certainly nothing new; it goes back
at least to Huffman...
I'm not disputing the value of your analogy; I'm just saying that a
sequence of two Unicode scalar values always represents, by
definition, a sequence of two Unicode characters. So the fact that
the sequence CR LF is somehow treated as a single "character" in
AppleScript 2.0 is not due to that language's adoption of Unicode.
It's a separate issue, despite being in the character manipulation
segment of the language.
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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