On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:35:12AM -0400, Rob Kinyon wrote: > On 10/21/05, Steve Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:37:09PM +0200, Juerd wrote: > > > Steve Peters skribis 2005-10-21 6:07 (-0500): > > > > Older versions of Eclipse are not able to enter these characters. > > > > That's > > > > where the copy and paste comes in. > > > > > > That's where upgrades come in. > > > > > That's where lots of money to update to the next version of WSAD becomes the > > limiting factor. > > So, you are proposing that the Perl of the Unicode era be limited to > ASCII because a 15 year old editor cannot handle the charset? That's > like suggesting that operating systems should all be bootable from a > single floppy because not everyone has access to a CD drive.
I saying that, since my up-to-date version of vi on my up-to-date OpenBSD can't type, much less even allow me to paste in, a Latin-1 character, this is an issue.
