On 05/10/2014 09:40 AM, mararm wrote:
Text = anything encoded as ASCII I suppose :D
I surely hope not. This is 2014. We have Unicode. Almost all of what I consider a text file on my storage is UTF-8 encoded.
I hope so too for different reasons. If that was the only criteria then it undermines one of the principles of *NIX. Please, let us differentiate between .txt. .conf, .xml, .html, .pj, .rb, .sh, .mm, MAN source files, .ps and a plethora of other files "encoded as ASCII" -- or similar. I re4alise many of these can be identified by some kind of signature as well as suffic, but that's not always a given. There's no reason perl, rby or other interpreter source files have to begin with a hash-bang. As for UTF-8, why not? The interpreters can handle it, can't they? And while I may be a native English speaker and would like to have the comments in interpreter scripts in English, at least for 'published' scripts, I see no reason why other languages that required other character sets should not exist. -- "The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out." -- JRR Tolkien, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org