Re: Requesting critique of spec of my new MayLoad utility (similar

John W. Krahn wrote:
> moi wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 May 2008 02:09:03 -0700, Robert Maas,
http://tinyurl.com/uh3t
>> wrote:

>>>> From: "Leslie P. Polzer" <leslie.pol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> do you know this
>>>> paper:
>>>> http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/papers/lisp05.pdf
>>> I have no way to read PDF files here.

>> I dumped the PDF into ASCII for you:

> That's definitely not ASCII, the quotation marks are outside of the 
> range of the ASCII character set.

It strikes me that the phrase "an ASCII file" has been used as a shorthand
way of saying "a file which is a stream of simple characters".  But now
that
Unicode is overtaking ASCII in popularity, maybe we need some better
terminology.

People have said "plain text file" for a while, but is that a good term
for something that's in Unicode?  Is UTF-8 plain enough to call it
"plain"?

I suppose the term "plain text" is ambiguous, so it's sort of a judgment
call whether you co-opt it for UTF-8.

   - Logan