Michael Snoyman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael Snoyman <mich...@snoyman.com> writes:
I don't think *anyone* is asserting that UTF-16 is a common encoding
for files anywhere,
*ahem*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16/UCS-2#Use_in_major_operating_systems_and_environments
I was talking about the contents of the files, not the file names or how
the system calls work. I know at least on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, if you
open up the default text editor, type in a few letters and hit save, the
file will not be in UTF-16.
OSX, TextEdit, plain text mode is UTF-16 and cannot be altered. Also, if
you load a UTF-8 plain text file in TextEdit it will be garbled because
it assumes UTF-16. For html files you can choose the encoding, which
defaults to UTF-8. But for plain text, it's always UTF-16. OSX is also
fond of UTF-16 in Cocoa...
--
Live well,
~wren
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