From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: per.starback@gmail.com, stephen@xemacs.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: EOL: unix/dos/mac
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:19:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fvziz1j2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130326140247.GB4179@acm.acm>
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:02:47 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> Cc: Per Starbäck <per.starback@gmail.com>,
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> This is a little confusing to poor old me. ASCII doesn't care about line
> breaks either; only particular use cases care. If you write a script
> (whether bash, sed, ....) on a *nix system and it has CRLF line ends, it
> will fail (with an obscure error message) regardless of whether that
> script is nominally in UTF-8 or ASCII or whatever.
>
> In what sense does Unicode "not care"?
In the sense that the shell script with CR-LF EOLs should not have
failed, if Bash supported Unicode line-breaking features.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-26 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-25 13:34 EOL: unix/dos/mac Per Starbäck
2013-03-25 13:56 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-25 22:41 ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-26 2:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-25 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-25 17:28 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-03-25 19:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-26 1:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 7:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 11:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 18:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-27 5:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 12:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-26 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-26 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 18:41 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 16:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 14:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-26 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-03-26 18:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 7:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-03-26 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier
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