... communication of ... you have ... display it ... Ah, I finally found Joel's quote online: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html That part...
In a message dated 5/1/2006 3:35:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time, PIEBALDconsult@... writes: So I think an argument can certainly be made that "plain text"...
... Come to think of it, EBCDIC supports all the characters allowed by ISO 8601, so it should be OK too. Even punch cards can be used with ISO 8601!...
That article has some mistakes or at least takes some license. Besides ebcdic, there is utf-16,a dn 32, and other encodings that differ (and some do not even...
the headers are often wrong, so they have to guess or at least confirm anyway. And many servers do not send the encoding. ... From: ISO8601@yahoogroups.com...
Dagnabit! From http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#P " Plain Text. Computer-encoded text that consists only of a sequence of code points from a given standard,...
Unicode was defined specifically to cover plain text. The definition is industry standard. Unicode has a few elements which might be considered higher...
... 8601. That's not what I said. I had a long reply going when I got kicked out, but I'm not going to try to rewrite it. It was coming down to this: My...
... between ... I suppose what I meant was: And it doesn't change the fact that not all Unicode _standards_ support ISO 8601. At least if I correctly...
... On third (at least) reading I am now completely stumped as to just what they mean by that definition; what is a "given standard". I also see that they say...
I think of it as standards employing unicode, not as unicode standards. In most cases they could have chosen another encoding, and the use of unicode is not...
... That is incorrect, errno is not set by time(). An implementation may choose to do so but it is not mandated by the POSIX/UNIX standard. Portable code...
I try to ignore what can only be considered a troll message. And its off-topic ;-) ... From: ISO8601@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ISO8601@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf...
I was refering to the message. ... From: ISO8601@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ISO8601@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of piebaldconsult Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 8:36...
... Standard C does _not_ forbid that the value '(time_t)-1' (which may differ from -1) represents 1969-12-31T23:59:59; it just states that when the 'time()'...
... Yuck, I just fed -1 into the Borland C/C++ 5.5 implementation of gmtime () and got a tm with the values: tm_year = 206 tm_mon = 1 tm_mday = 6 tm_hour = 6 ...
Hi - I have just been reviewing the responses to Mike RAWLINS "Still looking for ebxml Applications" and perhaps the New Zealanders Dean, Cameron and John have...
Stephen GOULD
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May 23, 2006 3:08 am
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Stephen, please do not send off-topic materials to the iso8601 group. tex...
No one does it better. No one does is more brief. _http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-timezone-20051013/_ (http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-timezone-20051013/) hjw...
I see that they have still not managed to move away from a strictly Newtonian view of time: "1.1.1 ... at any given moment it is the same time in UTC...
In a message dated 6/5/2006 4:44:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time, david.settle@... writes: see that they have still not managed to move away from a strictly...
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