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Date: | Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:34:11 -0700 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Linda Walsh on 11/23/2009 4:59 PM: > Instead of using random characters out of the 'random free area' -- > which could display as anything if you aren't in cygwin, depending > on what charset you have loaded, why not use 'dedicated' unicode > characters that map to the signs for those characters? They aren't > exactly equivalent, as they include some built-in display spacing, > BUT, they would display a colon as a colon, "*" as a asterisk, etc. But then, how would you distinguish between the valid UTF-16 replacement used to represent an invalid character, and a valid UTF-16 character representing itself? I'm sorry, but the value of a 1-to-1 round trip mapping outweighs the convenience of displaying a glyph that looks the same but causes ambiguous round trip conversions. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksLVDIACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCAMACgqj76FkhwHf6jLa2lG7ohZind iB8AoLWCl5VNJXmQ6MNOybP0LCXqZ4qT =icUw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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