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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: paper vs bits and bytes
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 13:05:44 -0800
References: <pan.2002.02.02.00.32.31.438138.8171@triad.rr.com>, <4hjo5uoul8ssk74kqoug9p42um1tfmllcq@4ax.com>, <B882D1C1.14E99%talthane@hotmail.com>


On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 11:38:41 +0000, Grail <>
declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing:


> Same may be true of data. Although the move to XML and self-describing
> formats that we're seeing these days suggests it'll just be a matter of
> understanding the tag names ("what's a surname, Daddy?") and then deciding
> on your own presentation.
>
Only if one has matched up the character set... Look at the
thread(s) on one 8-bit character that have run recently. I'll ignore
EBCDIC (though that was the system I learned first)... You may run into
various 8-bit character sets (ISO-Latin1/8859-1 vs 8859-15), M$
Double-Byte Character Set, or UniCode. MS-DOS line endings (cr/lf),
Amiga/Unix (lf), Macintosh/TRS-80 (cr). And that is just for text-only.

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