Sam, "I'd be suprised if Windows didn't understand UTF-8 these days,"
Be surprised! For Unicode, Microsoft Windows uses UTF-16. Peter On Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 11:29:53 AM UTC-4, Sam Whited wrote: > > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 9:44 AM, rob solomon <drro...@verizon.net > <javascript:>> wrote: > > I now understand that the bytes may be different. > > It's also worth noting that when Ken Thompson and Rob Pike (yes, the > same Rob Pike and Ken Thompson that created Go) created UTF-8, they > made sure it was backwards compatible with ASCII. Any characters that > are representable in ASCII will be the exact same bytes when encoded > to UTF-8. I'd be suprised if Windows didn't understand UTF-8 these > days, so it may be that you really don't need to "convert" your file > at all. > > Here's a fun introduction to Unicode (with a brief discussion of > encoding methods), if you're interested: > > http://reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode/ > > —Sam > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
