[cairo] [PATCH 3/3] [test] Use UTF-8 in test files

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Tue Mar 10 20:02:29 PDT 2015


On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:03:08 -0700, Bill Spitzak wrote:

> The main culprit are idiots who think you have to "translate to
> Unicode" immediately on input. That is a byte stream and should
> remain a byte stream.

What about line terminators? Many of these text-manipulation tools
treat their input as divided up into lines. Does that not go against
the concept of a “byte stream”?

Especially when you get into the specifics of what constitutes a line
terminator...


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