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Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful


From: Marko Rauhamaa
Subject: Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:54:01 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Linas Vepstas <address@hidden>:

> Unicode is just a bunch of bytes that are null-terminated.

That is not what Unicode is. Maybe you are thinking of UTF-8, an
ingenious way to map a Unicode sequence onto a byte sequence. Trouble
is, there are byte sequences that are illegal UTF-8. While they are
illegal for Unicode use, they are perfectly possible and valid as far as
the (Linux) operating system is concerned.


Marko



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