On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:44:45PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:42:32PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > Is there a unicode shell which does all piping in Unicode? > > cmd.exe in NT has a switch that does all piping in Unicode > Does it make a difference? Shouldn't a pipe just move the data > independent of any interpretation?
Of course you're right. But building XML with shell commands was always a lot easier when I could count on all shell output being 2-byte Unicode. It was a neat bit of magic, ascii and utf-8 text files would get turned into Unicode and I'd pipe them to cscript.exe and my XML would never break. Unicode and XML are like chocolate and peanut butter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
