Re: unicode (char as abstract data type)

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Sat, 18 Apr 1998 04:14:06 -0700 (PDT)


On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Khimenko Victor wrote:

> > need yet another one.
> >
> PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE explain how I am could tune my VLM.EXE OR NET.EXE to
> handle koi8-r in filenames! And the same about Mac AppleTalk client...

I don't know.

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> > understanding the data in their files.
> >
> You are completely wrong. Our web (and not only our!) server has (on server
> side) files in both windows-1251 and koi8-r encoding. And in near future
> there will be Mac encoding (Mac users are just connected and there is still
> no content from them on web :-)

I am talking about mounted filesystems that aren't going to change
charsets of the file content on the fly, but are used by the same users
both locally and remotely through NFS/SMB/CODA/whatever -- in that
situation user has to choose one encoding for himself. And once you have
mentioned web servers, if you do any kind of code conversion, *PLEASE*
remove <META> tags with charsets from those files -- stupid FrontPage
always inserts them, and once in browser cache, those tags override real
charset.

--
Alex

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