At 17:50 29/07/03 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

John Meacham writes:

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please can we figure out portable binary IO before worrying about i18n?

But I thought Ben's proposal included portable binary I/O? Input/OutputStreams do I/O in terms of Octets, not Chars. It's important to at least think about how text tranformations are layered on top of the binary I/O layer, because making a wrong decision could be costly in terms of performance later.

The W3C "charmod" document has some useful background for this kind of thing: http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/ (Which I think is in support of your point.) #g ------------------- Graham Klyne PGP: 0FAA 69FF C083 000B A2E9 A131 01B9 1C7A DBCA CB5E