Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:29:38 +0200 | From | Wichert Akkerman <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Previously Andrew Morton wrote: > But I'll grant that one cannot go adding new metadata to, say, C files this > way. I don't know how useful such a thing is though.
That is actually one of the few places where a bit of metadata would be very useful. Right now there is no way to indicate in what encoding a source is written: ascii, utf-8, ucs16, etc. are all possible. But a compiler or interpreter has no good way to figure that out.
Wichert.
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