In <of065337e4.0e9ce2ec-on48257c5c.0027bfa8-48257c5c.00297...@sg.ibm.com>, on 01/10/2014 at 03:30 PM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> said:
>Somehow I'm reminded of the "save two characters" impulse which then >caused a lot of angst in preparing for Y2K. The situations are not comparable. With 2-digit years there was an actual truncation of the data. With UTF-7 or UTF-8, all of the data are still present, but there is an efficiency issue. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN