Re: texteditors that can process and save in different encodings

2012-10-20 Thread Doug Ewell
When a Major Software Company, which sells the Well-Known Operating System that I and a few other people use and develop for, decides to add character-encoding metadata to the file system of that OS, and when versions of that file system that support encoding metadata are widespread enough

Re: texteditors that can process and save in different encodings

2012-10-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
2012/10/20 Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org: When a Major Software Company, which sells the Well-Known Operating System that I and a few other people use and develop for, decides to add character-encoding metadata to the file system of that OS This already exists as a builtin functionality of the

Re: texteditors that can process and save in different encodings

2012-10-20 Thread Asmus Freytag
Metadata that is separate from the data has a way of being disassociated from it. Annoying, but a fact of life. This can be as simple as file creation dates not being preserved on copy. Metadata that is contained in the same file as the data, has a way of being incorrect. Look no further