On 5/1/2014 7:33 PM, MRAB wrote:
On 2014-05-01 23:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 5/1/2014 2:04 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
Since its Unicode-troll time, here's my contribution
http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html
I will not comment on the Unix-assumption part, but I think you go wrong
with this: "Unicode is a Headache". The major headache is that unicode
and its very few encodings are not universally used. The headache is all
the non-unicode legacy encodings still being used. So you better title
this section 'Non-Unicode is a Headache'.
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I think he's right when he says "Unicode is a headache", but only
because it's being used to handle languages which are, themselves, a
"headache": left-to-right versus right-to-left, sometimes on the same
line;
Handling that without unicode is even worse.
diacritics, possibly several on a glyph; etc.
Ditto.
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