On Friday 30 July 2004 7:20 am, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> > >   The rule of thumb is that if you open a file, you should think about
> > > it is text or binary, and if it is text, you should think about how
> > > it is interpreted.
> >
> > Sure. And the authors of the code that was broken had done that when they
> > wrote it.
>
>   I had some hard time to parse this sentense...  What does this
> "that" denotes? ^^; I'd assume that "that" means "think about how it
> is interpreted", right?  If so, I found that the assumptions by some
> of the authors when they wrote it needs to be changed.

Sorry. I was just saying that we have to be careful not to break the prior 
assumptions.

All previously-existing code expected that text streams would return 
Characters that had a 1:1 mapping to the bytes in the file.

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