From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 23:36:42 EST
Joseph Boyle wrote:
>
> Yes, the software business is largely about dealing with the BADLY WRITTEN,
> the TRIVIAL, and the BRAIN-DEAD. Your point?
I see we are still working on naming utf-8 formats with and without the
bom.
I find these quite acceptable, assuming you mean:
utf8-badly-written- bom may or may not be there, we dont know.
utf8-trivial - never has a bom
utf8-brain-dead - always has a bom.
Yes, works fine.
I would like to rename notepad too, while we are at it. Let's name it
for always having a bom.
I think the naming conventions apply a subtle pressure on programmers to
converge towards a single format as well.
Afterall who wants to announce they are working with a badly-written of
brain-dead file format when they could be working with a trival one.
This approach might even fix lf/cr if applied there.
Line endings:
badly-written, brain-dead (you pick lf or lf/cr I don't care.)
trivial: Unicode line-separator
;-)
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