| "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com>: May 06 02:16AM +0200 On 06.05.2018 00:45, Lynn McGuire wrote: > now, and some alternatives for the future." > As having traveled down this road very recently in our combined C++ and > Fortran code, this is very interesting. I'm thinking that for display of *nix paths one can use statistical ways of inferring the encoding (if any), complemented with simply letting the user choose the encoding assumption, including choosing a local default. People so often forget that the user is part of the system and can do things easily that the computer part cannot. It was part of Microsoft's 1995 user interface guidelines, to let the user always be in charge, and the one initiating actions. Around 2005 or thereabouts, ten years later, it was forgotten, replaced by we-know-best and it's-our-machine. Today their UIs suck in every way, including speed (which is extreme, considering the speed of PCs has kept on increasing). But. Even if one big player has forgotten that computer systems are for the users and not the other way around, I say /we/ can remember. Cheers!, - Alf |
| wyniijj@gmail.com: May 06 06:25AM -0700 Lynn McGuire於 2018年5月6日星期日 UTC+8上午6時46分00秒寫道： > As having traveled down this road very recently in our combined C++ and > Fortran code, this is very interesting. > Lynn On linux, filename should be simple (it now seems just utf8 string) The bigger issue includes 'pathname'. But until pathname is fully understood or some consensus established. I don't think any artificial portable way should be standardized. More, the question: Whats is a directory? still haunts me. |
| wyniijj@gmail.com: May 06 06:22AM -0700 Lynn McGuire於 2018年5月3日星期四 UTC+8上午5時21分56秒寫道： > "Your computer is not a fast PDP-11." > Sigh, another proponent of "C sucks". > Lynn I used to think C as a high-level assembly language, not bothered with what level it is attributed, as long as it "close to the metal" and general enough, and some other language feature (RAII) is desired, though. |
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