- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:33:11 -0400 (EDT)
- To: davidc@nag.co.uk (David Carlisle)
- Cc: jcowan@reutershealth.com, elharo@metalab.unc.edu, xml-dev@lists.xml.org, xml-editor@w3.org
David Carlisle scripsit:
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>
> > That means that on mainframe platforms, XML files are not plaintext files
> > and vice versa. As a matter of justice, this is intolerable.
>
> No, it just means that the files should specify an encoding such that
> the NEL byte in the file maps to #10.
Well, maybe you can do that for EBCDIC files (although it means having
two distinct mappings on the platform), but extended-ASCII files won't
work that way: plaintext expects NEL (#x85).
> Ie the ebcdic - ascii/unicode translation should do as you'd expect if
> doing an ftp transfer in ascii mode.
You can do that if you are transferring files, but not if you are sharing
them via NFS or similar.
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John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
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Received on Wednesday, 24 July 2002 07:35:44 UTC