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 Message 297 
 Sergey Dorofeev to Michiel van der Vlist 
 UTF-8 nodelist report 
 14 Mar 25 20:03:46 
 
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Hello Michiel,

orig.message to echo UTF-8 on 10 Mar 25  12:16:07
 MV> There is no generally agreed mechanism to change the encoding in the
 MV> middle of a text file. Is say: don't even try it.

Nodelist is not just text file. It is structured data also. And there is
enought info to set zone/region/network wide information. If we consider
nodelist entries as (in python terminology) 'bytes', that is binary data, we
need this info to make /text/ from these binary strings.

 MV> OK. he message base however is something different. The best may be to
 MV> archive them "as is". Or not, I don't know. But now we are no discussing
 MV> the nodelist.

'Archive as-is' is known to be shortest way from data lake to data swamp) Need
to correctly decode messages creates backpressure against charset-ignoramity.

 MV> I say it is the resposibiliy of the RCs to submit an error free segment to
 MV> the ZC. But let's not make a mauntain out of a mole hil. We have ONE RC
 MV> submitting a segment that causes ONE line in the nodlist to be in error.
 MV> An error that is largely cosmetic.

Thats not mole or pole or something, that's failure at very start.

Sergey

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