Chip Salzenberg <chip(_at_)perlsupport(_dot_)com> writes:
Defining the content in terms of markup leaves would imply that no
text exists that does not participate in the metadata system somehow.
In the limit :
The byte 0x41 is markup, saying render upper-case variant of 1st letter
of Latin alphabet.
I don't feel comfortable with that, even as an abstraction.
I do feel confortable to some extent, because of issues with
displaying / formatting text in PostScript, Tk etc.
Outside the bounds 0x20..0x7E you need meta data (perhaps implied)
to know what a byte _means_ as text.
--
Nick Ing-Simmons
