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)
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