Re: OK what does ` mean - seriously seems to be not documented.
- Posted by _tom (admin) May 06, 2014
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Here is my makeover for write and writef
http://openeuphoria.org/wiki/view/NewDocs_Strings_Three.wc
I have changed lots of details so I need someone to review what I have written so far.
Bill:
Writing documentation is an infinite loop.
I only claim to know less than everyone else.
- The CR LF problem is due to DOS being copied from CP/M. Microsoft guessed wrong when the copied.
- Notice that /n is "newline." That suggests CR LF, LF, and CR as suits your operating system.
- There seems to be no value in keeping CR in modern software.
- Programming editors let you select line endings and do conversions for you.
- Euphoria does not have a "raw string" but does have "raw string input" which explains why CR characters are not preserved.
- The character ` is grave accent and is an alternative to using """ for raw string input.
- UTF-8 is the defacto standard for Unicode text. Euphoria has partial immediate support for UTF-8; routines do exist for extensive Unicode operations.
Keep asking questions, I will come up with an answer eventually.
_tom
