Language design

Wayne Werner wayne at waynewerner.com
Wed Sep 11 07:42:12 EDT 2013


On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Ben Finney wrote:
>  The sooner we replace the erroneous
>  “text is ASCII” in the common wisdom with “text is Unicode”, the
>  better.

I'd actually argue that it's better to replace the common wisdom with 
"text is binary data, and we should normally look at that text through 
Unicode eyes". A little less catchy, but more accurate ;)

-W


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