On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:19:22 -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
>
>> I hate EBCDIC!
>
>I don't mind EBCDIC. I dislike stepping on booby traps embedded by porters in
>well-known, well-designed software.Why didn't
>they just add a -ebcdic switch instead of making the default the opposite of
>the original design?
>
What can you cite for your notion of "the original design" I looked at "man
scp"
on Linux, and it was moot concerning character translation. One might as
readily
presume that "the original design" has always been that the conventional
character
sets of the originating system and the receiving system should be respected.
You may think this is contrived, but it's not novel. It's s form of Goodman's
Paradox:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction
Blame EBCDIC.
-- gil
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