[tech] doubts (was Re: [spec] [rfc] SEDR 300 VOLUME I)

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Petite Abeille once stated:
> > On Dec 30, 2020, at 00:28, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
> > 
> >  Touché.
> > 
> >  One task down, you have two left.
> 
> Right.
> 
> Second task: considering we cannot even agree what an URL is, ±20 years
> later, it's rather pointless to try with Gemini, where the concept is
> truly alien, "radical familiarity" notwithstanding. 



> Third task: wrap this* page. Hmmm. Why would I? What does it has to do
> *with anything? Is that a throw back from the textflow mega thread?

  No.  It's in reference to Solene's processing of UTF-8.  Some tasks,
processing UTF-8 is easy, others, not so much.  Since you seem to be on a
tear about UTF-8, I thought I might hand you one that isn't quite so
straightforwards.

> Long, uninterrupted sequences of random characters are not unique to
> Unicode. Or is the distinction between characters vs bytes? Then yes, it's
> 2020. Randomly chopping bytes is not appropriate indeed.

  Indeed.

  -spc