From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:23:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5FEC4722.8070900@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rsgjml$8hb$1@ciao.gmane.io>
On 30/12/20 01:04, Grant Edwards wrote:
> You must be talking about some sort of weird "wide" encoding (is there
> such a thing as UTF-16?). I've never seen a file like that. Everybody
> and everything uses UTF-8 these days and has for years. UTF-8 is a
> superset of ASCII, and doesn't increase size of the file unless
> non-ascii characters are used. Converting an ASCII file to UTF-8
> encoding is a noop. An ASCII file _is_ UTF-8.
There is utf-16 - MS's default version. They wrote their unicode support
*before* utf-8 really was a thing. So we have the nix's settling on an
8-bit char, and MS settling on a 16-bit char BEFORE that. Unbaking that
mess would be fun ...
So that file is probably something to do with MS and ASCII-16 :-)
Cheers,
Wol
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-30 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-28 21:36 [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install Walter Dnes
2020-12-28 21:48 ` Arve Barsnes
2020-12-28 21:55 ` Dale
2020-12-28 22:52 ` tastytea
2020-12-29 2:54 ` Walter Dnes
2021-01-19 2:21 ` Walter Dnes
2021-01-19 13:15 ` Andreas K. Hüttel
2020-12-29 15:11 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2020-12-29 21:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-29 23:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2020-12-30 1:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-30 9:23 ` Wols Lists [this message]
2020-12-30 16:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Andreas K. Huettel
2020-12-30 17:42 ` antlists
2020-12-30 17:30 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2020-12-30 18:01 ` antlists
2020-12-30 18:14 ` Andreas K. Huettel
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