From: Vince Darley (vince@SANTAFE.EDU)
Date: 28 Feb 00, 09:41 EST
From: Vince Darley <vince@SANTAFE.EDU> Subject: Re: European Users: Your opinion about ISO 8859 question ? On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Gottfried Barthel wrote: > My vague idea is that future Mac editors might be able to attach some > "flag" associated with the file that describes its encoding, setting the > default to standard Mac encoding in order to handle correctly older files > without such a flag. But of course I have no idea about the amount of work > that's possibly involved. Alpha could add an 'encoding' value to the resource fork of files it opens (the selection, font, size, etc are already stored in the resource fork), and this could accomplish what you want. In terms of entry/display of characters (your previous paragraph which I removed), that involves much more work... It's certainly something we'd like to achieve. > Perhaps my use of the word "encoding" is not the proper use, but I hope > that in spite of possibly wrong terminology, I made my ideas sufficiently > clear. Since it's precisely the word used by Tcl, it's perfect for Alpha. Vince.