Albert Cahalan dixit: >Unless plain "C" goes UTF-8
Not going to happen, it’s not binary-safe. (I fought that in MirBSD with the OPTU-8/16 encoding scheme.) >The stupid broken en_US.UTF-8 fucks up the sort order. So true… (and paper size!) >We really need a do-nothing locale that follows the Unicode spec >using the UTF-8 encoding. Yes, my proposal exactly. >We could also use a do-nothing locale >that follows the Unicode spec using the Latin-1 encoding. No, for two reasons: ① legacy encodings must die ② then you need one for EVERY legacy encoding (why special-case one?) bye, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
