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Re: Rewriting pkglint in a portable language



On 3/24/16 11:11 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> If you coded as if the whole world was "ASCII English" (AE) then yes,
> you have a long road ahead of you.

Hi, D'Arcy.

For some programs, that's completely fine.  And other programs will just
treat a string as a sequence of bytes and not know what the encoding is.
A plethora of C programs do one or both of these to this very day.

Regards,

Lewis


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