Thus said Ralph Corderoy on Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:07:47 +0000:
I think I'm in that set too; regular ed and dc user. :-)
Excellent. I use ed on occasion (when vi is not available) but
definitely dc is my calculator of choice. It's disappointing that some
Linuxes don't install dc/ed by default anymore, but they aren't my
primary system anyway.
I think most of us would prefer the library, and code to use it is
already written. :-) Plus, with the world that matters, e.g. not Java,
moving evermore to UTF-8, a lot of the time it isn't needed.
I didn't mean to suggest it as an option for everyone, just as an
option. This may be unnecessary, however, if some of the aforementioned
improvements were made (e.g. try encoding change and character
substitution upon failure; though here again).
As a Unix fan, would it help you consider switching from C to UTF-8 if
you knew its history, if you don't already. Ken Thompson and Rob Pike
cooked it up in a cafe close to Murray Hill to fix the problems with
the original UTF.
Actually, I am familiar with how UTF-8 came about---it really was a
quite impressive arrangements of bit placement. I wont't mind reading it
again. :-)
so I can `C grep ...' when needed.
Wow, yes, grep was one of the primary reasons why I disabled UTF-8
support on the systems that I use. One day grep matched a number of
things that I didn't expect it to match and I spent all morning trying
to figure out why. When I discovered it was because my encoding was
en_US.UTF-8, I switched to C. This is definitely something to consider
(using a wrapper to help grep).
Thanks,
Andy
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