Re^9: How to reverse a (Unicode) string

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No, you don't have to with US-ASCII and iso-8859-1.

Sure you do. It's not a difficult encoding, but it still is an encoding.

Unicode is a character set, not an encoding, so that sentence is broken.

Wait. You are saying that a sentence of the form "X is an encoding of Y" is broken in English is Y isn't an encoding?

I guess that "UTF-8 is an encoding of Unicode" is equally broken. For the reason that Unicode isn't an encoding in that sentence either.

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Re^10: How to reverse a (Unicode) string by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2011 at 00:07 UTC
Sure you do Why do you keep insisting there's a need to apply an identity function? Or are you saying decoding ASCII isn't an identity function? It's hard to tell since you're nay-saying without any explanation. You are saying that a sentence of the form "X is an encoding of Y" is broken in English [if] Y isn't an encoding? I seem to have misread what you said. (Perhaps I missed the "of"?) Striken.	[reply]

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Re^10: How to reverse a (Unicode) string
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2011 at 00:07 UTC

Sure you do

Why do you keep insisting there's a need to apply an identity function? Or are you saying decoding ASCII isn't an identity function? It's hard to tell since you're nay-saying without any explanation.

You are saying that a sentence of the form "X is an encoding of Y" is broken in English [if] Y isn't an encoding?

I seem to have misread what you said. (Perhaps I missed the "of"?) Striken.

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