On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 07:09:41PM -0400, Roger wrote:
> I thought non-ASCII characters required 16 bits within UTF-8, versus
> just 8 bits for ASCII.
1. ASCII is a 7-bit encoding that we store in 8-bit bytes.
2. You don't encode non-ASCII with ASCII. That seems to be your logic.
"I thought non
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:09:41 -0400
Roger wrote:
Hey Roger,
> I thought non-ASCII characters required 16 bits within UTF-8, versus just 8
> bits for ASCII. Therefore more memory. More memory referencing, requires
> more
> processing.
I can't take you seriously, sorry. UTF-8 is the future, t
On 31 March 2015 at 00:13, Roger wrote:
> But anyways, think I made my point.
You did: you only care for whatever encoding you personally need over
there in America. Most of us, however, are from Europe, do need UTF-8,
and reckon you can piss off.
cls
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 04:01:32PM -0700, Eric Pruitt wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 06:57:55PM -0400, Roger wrote:
>> >We do however need to use English currency. ?? ain't ASCII.
>>
>> I would presume that was the old deprecated cents sign which was apparently
>> deprecated within the US during
>> Less chars equals less processor and memory usage. ;-)
>
>If you use ASCII-chars only, UTF-8 will be 0 overhead. I repeat: 0 overhead.
I thought non-ASCII characters required 16 bits within UTF-8, versus just 8
bits for ASCII. Therefore more memory. More memory referencing, requires more
pr
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 06:57:55PM -0400, Roger wrote:
> >We do however need to use English currency. ?? ain't ASCII.
>
> I would presume that was the old deprecated cents sign which was apparently
> deprecated within the US during the late 1990's.
It was not, it's the symbol for the pound sterlin
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:32:01PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
>On 30 March 2015 at 22:28, Roger wrote:
>> No need for funky apostrophe usage within the English language.
>
>We do however need to use English currency. ?? ain't ASCII.
I would presume that was the old deprecated cents sign wh
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:28:45 -0400
Roger wrote:
> I recently fell back to using only ASCII (or C/POSIX), as I realized I do not
> use any UTF-8 chars, etc. (Eh, Windows now uses UTF-16 by default from what
> I
> hear, and I don't even speak any Asian languages!)
This is the wrong way to go.
On 30 March 2015 at 22:28, Roger wrote:
> No need for funky apostrophe usage within the English language.
We do however need to use English currency. £ ain't ASCII.
cls
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 08:33:48PM +0200, FRIGN wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:05:19 +0200
>Markus Wichmann wrote:
>
>> How about simply calling setlocale()? Or was that too simple? If the
>> user has set a non-UTF-8 locale and then uses UTF-8, that's on them!
>
>POSIX locales are an insane conc
Connor Lane Smith once said:
> On 30/03/2015, FRIGN wrote:
> > In the end, the idea of locales is founded in some deeply-resting issue
> > with self-guilt, assuming there's some African tribe which sorts ö after
> > x.
>
> They're called Swedes.
A long time ago they were an African tribe.
An
On 30/03/2015, FRIGN wrote:
> In the end, the idea of locales is founded in some deeply-resting issue
> with self-guilt, assuming there's some African tribe which sorts ö after
> x.
They're called Swedes.
cls
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:13:11 +0200
Markus Wichmann wrote:
Hey Markus,
> How? I heard that assertion before but never found anyone willing to
> explain that one more.
> (...)
> Unfortunately, your oppinion on that will have to contend with all the
> other ones on the topic. And stuff like this is
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 08:33:48PM +0200, FRIGN wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:05:19 +0200
> Markus Wichmann wrote:
>
> > How about simply calling setlocale()? Or was that too simple? If the
> > user has set a non-UTF-8 locale and then uses UTF-8, that's on them!
>
> POSIX locales are an insane
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015, at 02:33 PM, FRIGN wrote:
> POSIX locales are an insane concept.
> The idea of localized differences has its origin in the
> sick minds of the POSIX-authors.
Don't be so diplomatic. How do you really feel?
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:05:19 +0200
Markus Wichmann wrote:
> How about simply calling setlocale()? Or was that too simple? If the
> user has set a non-UTF-8 locale and then uses UTF-8, that's on them!
POSIX locales are an insane concept. Unicode has already gone a long
way to define sane internat
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 08:50:11AM -0700, Evan Gates wrote:
> The problem is using glibc's regex engine without first calling
> setlocale to ensure a UTF-8 locale. This causes it to remain in the
> C/POSIX locale. This will effect the same problem in all tools that
> use the libc's regex engine (ex
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 09:48:08PM +0100, isabella parakiss wrote:
>> Please fix
>>
>> $ sed 's/[à]/x/' <<< è
>> x¨
>
> Interestingly, sbase sed linked with musl gives the correct result.
>
> Will look into it.
>
The problem is using g
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:42:58PM +0200, FRIGN wrote:
> The suckless core will be handled as a list any maybe later be also
> an installable collection for, let's say, Alpine Linux.
Let's call that collection, coreutils!
tauto...@gmail.com said:
> My view is that the progression of the web has been actively
> manipulated, but technical solutions exist. There is power in
> creation. It isn't just hype, but money, and its creations.
Sure the "progress" of web was manipulated - standards are not plants,
they won't de
My view is that the progression of the web has been actively manipulated, but
technical solutions exist. There is power in creation. It isn't just hype, but
money, and its creations.
I have a vision for the web, but it seems you do, too. What is your vision?
Ben
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