Re: UTF-8N?

[Kenneth Whistler]

John Cowan wrote:

> I think the implication is that the OS provides an interface to read
> characters out of a text file, in which case BOM-eating 

BOMophagy, aka FEFFagy ;-)

> (and masking the
> difference between various text encodings) is very sensible.   Historic
> OSes have not had such an interface, but Plan 9 does:  getrune, putrune,
> etc.

And how very sensible this is, now that Unicode has encoded runes (U+16A0 ff.),
so that you can call getrune() and actually get a rune!

--Ken