From owner-spki@c2.net Fri Mar 26 06:20:23 1999 Received: from blacklodge.c2.net (blacklodge.c2.net [140.174.185.245]) by lox.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA06958; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 06:20:21 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by blacklodge.c2.net (8.8.8/8.7.3) id CAA29640 for spki-outgoing; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 02:31:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36FB61C3.78A44EA9@algroup.co.uk> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:30:27 +0000 From: Ben Laurie Organization: A.L. Group plc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Koning CC: nisse@lysator.liu.se, spki@c2.net Subject: Re: Display types? References: <199903151518.KAA16272@swan.lcs.mit.edu> <87g17636x5.fsf@hedonism.demon.co.uk> <3.0.3.32.19990316075757.0373da18@spiritone.com> <199903161853.NAA04997@tonga.xedia.com> <199903162250.RAA10841@tonga.xedia.com> <36FAB989.34BD3E16@algroup.co.uk> <199903252237.RAA29506@tonga.xedia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-spki@c2.net Precedence: bulk Paul Koning wrote: > > >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Laurie writes: > Ben> I don't get it either, but in my case its because I thought > Ben> Unicode allowed either byte order, and which you are using is > Ben> obvious because of the leadin character (0xfffe). > > Right. That's a typical bad committee solution to the problem. The > right solution is to fix the order, that way only half the platforms > have to do extra work rather than all the platforms having to do twice > as much extra work. > > Imagine how poorly the internet would run if TCP had the byte order in > its headers selected by the first byte of the header. Even OSI never > did that... That's as may be, but Unicode did. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi