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   Message 297 of 382   
   Sergey Dorofeev to Michiel van der Vlist   
   UTF-8 nodelist report   
   14 Mar 25 20:03:46   
   
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   Hello Michiel,   
      
   orig.message to echo UTF-8 on 10 Mar 25  12:16:07   
    MV> There is no generally agreed mechanism to change the encoding in the   
    MV> middle of a text file. Is say: don't even try it.   
      
   Nodelist is not just text file. It is structured data also. And there is   
   enought info to set zone/region/network wide information. If we consider   
   nodelist entries as (in python terminology) 'bytes', that is binary data, we   
   need this info to make /text/ from these binary strings.   
      
    MV> OK. he message base however is something different. The best may be to   
    MV> archive them "as is". Or not, I don't know. But now we are no discussing   
    MV> the nodelist.   
      
   'Archive as-is' is known to be shortest way from data lake to data swamp) Need   
   to correctly decode messages creates backpressure against charset-ignoramity.   
      
    MV> I say it is the resposibiliy of the RCs to submit an error free segment to   
    MV> the ZC. But let's not make a mauntain out of a mole hil. We have ONE RC   
    MV> submitting a segment that causes ONE line in the nodlist to be in error.   
    MV> An error that is largely cosmetic.   
      
   Thats not mole or pole or something, that's failure at very start.   
      
   Sergey   
      
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