On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:55 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>>>Unicode has a lot of inertia at this point, and 7-bit ASCII has more. I >>>can reasonably expect both of them to last long after my death, and docs >>>and conversion programs until civilization collapses to the point >>>computers are gone. >> >> How about EBCDIC? >What about it? If I needed to read it, it would be one-line awk script >away. Sort of my point. Can you reasonably expect it to last long after your death? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
