On 23/09/12 03:44, DLSauers wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:59:09 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On 21/09/12 20:58, DLSauers wrote:
The rest of the world AND the *nineteenth* century wants to say a few
words to you. ASCII was crap from the moment it was invented -- there
I don't agree, and thats
On 23/09/12 04:29, Paul Crawford wrote:
What I hate about unicode was the idea of adopting 16-bit characters and
thus breaking so much byte-orientated code that was written, tested, and
integrated over the history of computing.
You make it sound like the Unicode Consortium hacked into people's
On 09/22/2012 11:29 AM, Paul Crawford wrote:
But yes to all who point out MS' deficiencies in following simple
standards, it is almost like they want to prevent interoperability...
It's not original, but, "Microsoft follows standards like caribou follow
migrating salmon."
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On 21/09/12 14:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
(Although in fairness, given the technical limitations back in 1963, the
designers of ASCII did a reasonable job of making something that was usable
for a subset of American English.)
Therein lies the problem - in 1960s there was damn-all chance of a
