On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 4:20 PM brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm personally fine with the ad-hoc approach we use now, which is > actually very convenient to script and, in my view, not to terrible to > parse in other tools and languages. Your mileage may vary, though. It's of one piece with the Unix tradition that gave us Perl. That's both a blessing and a curse. Outputting fields, escapes, etc and the ability to use xpath to extract, manipulate and query specific data is... very useful. There's a hard tradeoff with utf-8, and any attempt at papering over that - iconv conversions, etc – will inevitably munge data in some cases. hmmm, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx - ask interesting questions ~ http://linkedin.com/in/martinlanghoff - don't be distracted ~ http://github.com/martin-langhoff by shiny stuff
