Hi Phillip,
Am 14.11.2011 um 09:36 schrieb Philip TAYLOR:
>
>
> Keith J. Schultz wrote:
>
>> So, Unicode needs an editor to be displayed correctly.
>
> Why ? Not meant to sound aggressive, but seems a very
> odd assertion, IMHO. Editors are for changing things;
> why would you need a program intended to change things
> just to display Unicode ?
Yes, there are other programs for displaying texts. I was thinking about
a unix command such as cat, less, more, etc. Depending on a few things
they will not necessarily display a Unicode text file correctly !
>
>> Now, for the youngsters XML, TeX, HTML are per definition plain text files.
>
> No, they are text files, not /plain/ text files. Look
> at some mime types :
>
> text/plain (for plain text)
> text/html (for HTML)
C'mon Phillip! I wrote "per defintion" ! That is the file is plain text.
the plain text "text/html" is for the browser so that it knows a file
contains
html-tags/commands and interpret accordingly during display!
Just like in XML the data tag can contain binary data, yet it is
entered in HEX!
Though, I believe in the newer standards binary can be entered
directly! Been
a long time since I look at the actual standard.
Also, for most programming languages the source is a plain text file,
even though its
content is in a programming language.
regards
Keith.
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