On 2004-06-07 at 21:33:03, David Cantrell wrote: > This is what is so wrong about allowing unicode operators - yes, I don't > need to write them, but if some other programmer writes one I have to be > able to read it. And I can't.
Well, for one thing, just because your email program doesn't let you display them, that doesn't mean you can't see them in your text editor. If I sent you a Perl program as an attachment I'm sure the "bizarre" characters would come through fine. And for another thing, what bizarre email system are you using that in 2004 can't even handle Latin-1? It's not like they were something from way out in Unicodespace, nor was the message UTF8-encoded; just plain old, garden variety, 8-bpc ISO-8859-1. They were, incidentally, the guillemets; « = left-pointing (<<) and » = right-pointing (>>). -Mark
