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Article #700Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
From: Glenn A. Adams
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:26
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:26
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In article <2675@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes: >On the other hand, one can't use process code for interchange, unless >you are living in the closed world, because other applications won't >accept it. Oh, how about ASCII? It makes a pretty decent process *and* interchange code for English text. >You should be crazy. If you are mapping a file under possibly networked >environment (these days, all environments are so), you can't use multiple >octet fixed width code because of endeaness. Don't say signature, because >it makes everything complex and, thus, slow, and your reasoning to map >files should be for efficiency and for simplicity. Signatures are a far cry simpler than variable length encodings. Glenn Adams
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