On 17.11.2009, at 15:47, Juan Vuletich wrote:
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> I never talked about control chars. We were talking about line ending conversions. A typical scenario is needing to edit ini files for real users that are stored in a server. I need to support users with Windows and Mac. And I want to leave the files as they need them. The best way to do that is with the Cuis editor. Then, I'm in control.

Squeak's editor used to be binary-safe. You could visit any file in a file list, change a character, and save it back knowing that this would be the only byte altered. I wonder if there could be a convenient way to do that, while still interpreting e.g. utf-8 sequences as unicode characters. Maybe all that's needed is a stricter separation of model and rendering?

- Bert -