On 22/03/2014 08:54, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
Le samedi 22 mars 2014 05:59:34 UTC+1, Mark H. Harris a écrit :
On 3/21/14 11:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
(Side point: You have your 0d and your 0a backwards; the Unix line
ending is U+000A, and the Windows default is U+000D U+000A.)
Yeah, I know... smart apple.
How are you going to make people change? What are you going to make
them change to? Who controls this standard, and how do you convince
all OSes to comply with it?
Well, we're already doing this to some extent; baby steps. Well, we
have open document standards (evolving) and we have a really good sense
for unicode (and python is being a genuine leader there) and the
flat-file is just another open document (very simple no doubt), not
different from a standards viewpoint than rft, odt, {whatever}; txt?
My idea is that as we are morphing open document standards we need
to keep the "flat-file" in mind too. The ASCII ship has sailed too.
Unicode is in, ASCII is out (for all intents and purposes) except at
Microsoft---and its time to rethink what a "flat" unicode text file
really is. That's all.
No offense. A good start would be to understand "unicode"
instead of bashing MS.
jmf
How apt given how this thread has moved :)
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