"Michael" == Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> writes:
Michael> operating systems without any reliable metadata (in fact,
Michael> without any metadata at all). An implementation could
Michael> interpret this rule as allowing "I know this file is on
Michael> an AS400 and I know that on an AS400 the default file
Michael> encoding is IBM-EBCDIC". But I would hope that this would
Michael> be done under rule 4 (implementation-defined heuristics)
Michael> rather than under rule 1 (external encoding information).
My thoughts are different - I believe that doing it under rule 1 is
the best way, and make up for the lack of decent O/S support for
metadata (OS/2 had it a decade ago!), by adding hooks so that the user
can supply the encoding information in some way.
--
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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