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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ASCII to ASCII compression.
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On 07/06/2024 20:06, Richard Harnden wrote:
> On 07/06/2024 19:49, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> 
> Will your babyx be able to handle, say, utf-8?
> 
No. There's no point. The algorithm is designed for FileSystem XML 
files, which store UFT-8 as "binary". I should maybe make that clear
in the docs. UTF-8 files would break the shell.

http://malcolmmclean.github.io/babyxrc/FileSystemXML.html

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