this just popped up when i was searching the archive.
On Mon 15 Mar 2010 18:44:41 EST 2010, quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
> On Mon Mar 15 17:46:11 EDT 2010, aim0s...@lav... wrote:
> > Yes, but why wc utility counts runes (wc(1) call them runes) manually
> > using huge table instead of using functio
On Mon Mar 15 17:46:11 EDT 2010, aim0s...@lavabit.com wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:13:40PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > perhaps you have misunderstood.
> >
> > inside programs, sometimes unicode text is represented as
> > runes. runes are not sent over pipes nor stored in files.
> >
>
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:13:40PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> perhaps you have misunderstood.
>
> inside programs, sometimes unicode text is represented as
> runes. runes are not sent over pipes nor stored in files.
>
> therefore, there is no need to wc runes.
Yes, but why wc utility counts
On Mon Mar 15 17:12:06 EDT 2010, aim0s...@lavabit.com wrote:
> Just looked at source of wc
> (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/wc.c). UTF-8
> is hard-coded here. What is the reason? Nobody wants to rewrite it,
> it is optimization or it is impossible to rewrite it using runes fo
Just looked at source of wc
(http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/wc.c). UTF-8
is hard-coded here. What is the reason? Nobody wants to rewrite it,
it is optimization or it is impossible to rewrite it using runes for
some reason?
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.html says all
