Frank da Cruz scripsit:
> One of the key questions in designing and implementing such a protocol is
> "what is a text file?"
Indeed. The GNU utilities go to great lengths to process all 256 bytes
even in purely text utilities, but none of them (except specific conversion
programs) handle multibyte text.
> So at minimum, a text file should be tagged according to character set. To
> my knowledge, this has never been done at the file-system level.
Either that, or there needs to be only one character set!
:-)
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