Re: Announcing Bytext

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kaixo!

> Many of the elegant features of Unixes depend on the notion of 8 bit
> transparency: pipe, cat, echo... the byte stream is the common denominator.
> The functions are general purpose and thus more useful. Bytext takes this
> elegant notion to it?s logical conclusion: not only can you process text
> as bytes, you can also process bytes as text.

I don't understand, how can you encode in an 8bit space all the characters
of the world languages ?

And if it is a multi-byte encoding, then it should have about the same 
problems as utf-8 or euc have when faced with byte-only utilities.

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Pablo Saratxaga

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