Re: wily 0.13.42

"Ian Broster" <[email protected]> Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:57:11 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.editors.wily
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I'm not sure this is a bug we want to fix?  I'm guessing that this
> is because (not surprisingly) some bits of /bin/echo aren't valid
> UTF8.

I see.

However it does seem to break a rather fundamental assumption that a load  
then save will not corrupt the file.

Most text editors seem ok with binry files (presumably because the don't  
do UTF at all); despite the technical difficulties of doing so in wily, I  
think it's worth another think.

> we'd have to maintain two copies of the file:
> the version with valid UTF, and the original version with invalid
> UTF.

Is there no way to have a raw representation in memory and a best-effort  
UTF8 render/manipulation?

i.


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Ian Broster