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At 12:45 AM +0400 4/23/04, Andrey Kiselev wrote:
>Chris,
>
>On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:21:31AM -0700, Chris Cox wrote:
>>  Yes, but do they dream in big endian or little endian?
>>  Using ASCII tags would make it readable regardless of byte order.
>
>It is still not clear for me what do you (and others) mean as ASCII
>tags? Completely serialized metadata (including numerics and strings)?
>I should note that things like these bring up many problems with
>i18n/l10n: decimal delimiters, encodings etc.

The values would not be ASCII, just the tags.
There can't be any problem with interpreting the tags -- it's just 
using human readable strings (7 bit ASCII, roman character set, 
English) instead of numbers.

Chris
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