Re: (Informational only: UTF-8 BOM and the real life)

2012-07-30 Thread Steven Atreju
Leif H Silli xn--mlform-...@xn--mlform-iua.no wrote: |We now have some data that indicates that what Unicode says about the UTF-8 |BOM is worded in a way that is possible to misunderstand. I support you in Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!, that is good to read black on #FCFCF9. |Steven replied: | |In

Re: (Informational only: UTF-8 BOM and the real life)

2012-07-30 Thread Steven Atreju
Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote: |Steven Atreju wrote: | |^Z as an EOF marker for text files was part of the MS-DOS legacy from |CP/M, where all files were written to a multiple of the disk block size |(I think 128 for CP/M and 512 for MS-DOS 1.x), and there had to be some |way to tell

Re: (Informational only: UTF-8 BOM and the real life)

2012-07-30 Thread Doug Ewell
Steven Atreju wrote: I'm learning in this thread. (And CP/M was that thing that Microsoft bought cheap to sell it expensively the very next day to IBM as their consumer box OS.?! This history isn't correct either, but I'm not going to bother going into the correct version, as it has even

Re: (Informational only: UTF-8 BOM and the real life)

2012-07-30 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/30/2012 6:12 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: But this is good for the power industry and the hardware producers, is it. Please, no more conspiracy theories. nuff said. A./

Re: (Informational only: UTF-8 BOM and the real life)

2012-07-30 Thread Steven Atreju
Rick McGowan r...@unicode.org wrote: |No. That wasn't CP/M... It was a different OS. Oh yes, according to Wikipedia my remembrance was wrong. Sorry. Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote: |Steven Atreju wrote: | | I'm learning in this thread. | (And CP/M was that thing that Microsoft bought

Re: (Informational only: UTF-8 BOM and the real life)

2012-07-30 Thread Jon Hanna
On 07/30/2012 02:12 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: Please, no more conspiracy theories. Yes. If this goes on, I'll find it impossible to refrain from telling you all my theories about the ANSI-INCITS 154-1988 (R1999) keyboard. And nobody wants that.