<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Joakim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joakim@airpost.net" target="_blank">joakim@airpost.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 19:20:15 UTC, Marcin Mstowski wrote:<br>
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Character Data Representation<br>
Architecture<<a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cdra/" target="_blank">http://www-01.<u></u>ibm.com/software/<u></u>globalization/cdra/</a>>by<div class="im"><br>
IBM. It is what you want to do with additions and it is available<br>
since<br>
1995.<br>
When you come up with an inventive idea, i suggest you to first check what<br>
was already done in that area and then rethink this again to check if you<br>
can do this better or improve existing solution. Other approaches are<br>
usually waste of time and efforts, unless you are doing this for fun or you<br>
can't use existing solutions due to problems with license, copyrights,<br>
price, etc.<br>
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You might be right, but I gave it a quick look and can't make out what the encoding actually is. There is an appendix that lists several possible encodings, including UTF-8!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, because they didn't reinvent wheel from scratch and are reusing existing encodings as a base. There isn't any problem with adding another code page.<br>
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Also, one of the first pages talks about representations of floating point and integer numbers, which are outside the purview of the text encodings we're talking about.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>They are outside of scope of CDRA too. At least read picture description before making out of context assumptions.<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I cannot possibly be expected to know about every dead format out there.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>
Nobody expect that.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you can show that it is materially similar to my single-byte encoding idea, it might be worth looking into.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Spending ~15 min to read Introduction isn't worth your time, so why should i waste my time showing you anything ?<br></div></div>