From dev-return-6198-apmail-couchdb-dev-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Sun Aug 30 05:39:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 4538 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2009 05:39:41 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 30 Aug 2009 05:39:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 48329 invoked by uid 500); 30 Aug 2009 05:39:41 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 48243 invoked by uid 500); 30 Aug 2009 05:39:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 48233 invoked by uid 99); 30 Aug 2009 05:39:41 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:39:41 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [80.68.94.123] (HELO tumbolia.org) (80.68.94.123) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:39:31 +0000 Received: from nslater by tumbolia.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mhd8A-00077g-Ar for dev@couchdb.apache.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:39:10 +0100 Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:39:10 +0100 From: Noah Slater To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Subject: Re: Character encodings and JSON RFC (spun off from COUCHDB-345) Message-ID: <20090830053910.GD25697@tumbolia.org> Mail-Followup-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org References: <6068908F-F5D2-4F1D-9339-E7848B03A23F@apache.org> <20090830043020.GA25697@tumbolia.org> <20090830045841.GC25697@tumbolia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Noah: Awesome User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:33:14AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > Well technically... If their both valid encodings of unicode, then > they're both valid encodings of each other. Just because you're > concerned about how the represent unicode doesn't mean we can't define > that ISO-8859-1's encoding table isn't encoding utf-8 representations > of code points. Granted this gets into up is down and left is right > territory. Don't get technical on me, motherfuton. If you want a word for this, you would say they are transcodings of each other. > But you started it when saying that something that > represents a subset of unicode is a valid encoding. Which its not. > lrn2nyquistfrequency fool! US-ASCII encoded an extremely limited subset of Unicode. US-ASCII is a perfectly valid encoding of Unicode. Learn to Unicode your face, up in that. Kindest regards, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater