Re: Text encoding Babel. Was Re: George Keremedjiev

2018-11-30 Thread Keelan Lightfoot via cctalk
> Welcome. :-) Thanks! > Do you think that we stopped enhancing the user input experience more > because we were content with what we had or because we didn't see a > better way to do what we wanted to do? Both. In the beginning we were content, because the keyboard was well suited to the capab

Re: Text encoding Babel. Was Re: George Keremedjiev

2018-11-27 Thread Keelan Lightfoot via cctalk
I'm a bit dense for weighing in on this as my first post, but what the heck. Our problem isn't ASCII or Unicode, our problem is how we use computers. Going back in time a bit, the first keyboards only recorded letters and spaces, even line breaks required manual intervention. As things developed,