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Re: WritePString weirdness...

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Subject: Re: WritePString weirdness...
From: Arnaud Nicolet <anic297 at mac dot com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:38:20 +0200
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Le 30 mars 08 à 23:24 (soir), Joe Strout a écrit:

> It's really quite simple: an app that writes text to a file has to
> decide how to represent that text as bytes.  An app that reads text
> from a file has to decide how to interpret bytes as text.  When those
> decisions are not the same, then the text that's read isn't the same
> as the text that was written.  Nothing mysterious about that.

I'm thinking of a feature request for RB but I don't know if it's  
technically possible:

On each write of PStrings, RB automatically inserts the encoding of  
the string (e.g as an integer), in a way that does not disturb how  
PStrings work (e.g, after the PString).
On read of a PString, RB automatically reads the PString and then the  
encoding, which it uses to convert the read PString.

With this method, a beginner or someone who does not want to "care"  
about encodings (e.g a local app) doesn't have any problems.
As far as I know, we can't do this programatically: we can't know the  
"name" or "value" of the encoding of <this particular> string and we  
can't either convert back something to an encoding. Can RS  
technically do that?
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