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Re: [h5md-user] units module
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Konrad Hinsen |
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Re: [h5md-user] units module |
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Thu, 7 Nov 2013 16:38:19 +0100 |
Pierre de Buyl writes:
> Pragmatic :-)
Indeed :-)
> Well, I tested writing from Fortran and that works nice :-)
>
> Peter and I tested reading in Python and that is ok.
>
> Konrad, you expressed concerns about UTF8, could you comment on whether that
> would be a problem?
The problem is not so much in reading and writing UTF-8 (which is
indeed just like ASCII), but in interpreting UTF-8 strings. So we need
to consider code that manipulates unit strings rather than just
copying them around. Stuff like applying/removing SI prefixes. Of
course I wouldn't like doing that in C even with ASCII.
There's also the practical problem of writing unit string constants in
languages that don't accept Unicode in the source. It's possible, of
course, but not convenient.
Konrad.
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