Antoniotti Marco antoniotti.marco@disco.unimib.it writes:
On Apr 11, 2014, at 22:18 , Bob Cassels bobcassels@netscape.net wrote:
Because this is a binary write, not a character write. It has nothing to do with Unicode or anything else. Unless the original problem has to do with writing UCS-2 or UTF-16, but there was nothing in the original question that had anything to do with characters, other than the incorrect use of write-char to write a binary value.
I understand that my original message was not on spot. In fact I changed the subject line in my response… The issue, in any case, appears to be the handling of characters nevertheless. Maybe Paul can clarify what he was really trying to do.
In any case… I am the only person who thinks that a “sub-standard” on these issues may be a Good Thing?
What could be a good thing is a partial standardization of :external-format. But I'd say that a standardization of the semantics of pathnames (including logical pathnames) on posix system would be more urgent.