On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Benjamin Caplan<celestialcognit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sean Hunt wrote: >> For the purposes of this message, an encoding is any manner of >> interpreting text, including the base character encoding and any >> encodings layered on top of that. > > I think that "any manner of interpreting text" is too broad. It includes > things like the English language and the Agoran Spirit of the Game.
For the purposes of that proposal I think "an encoding is any manner of translating a stream of raw bytes into characters" or similar would be sufficient. -- -c.
