On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:14 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Apostolos Syropoulos <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Just a side note:
>>> http://colorelle.ru/silly/uni_vs_code.pdf
>>>
>>> Briefly: unicode has made much more problems then tried to solve.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Really? The problem is that people still use these outdated character
>> encodings. And let's stop arguing about the obvious.
>
> The obvious is that UNICODE definitely causes a lot of problems....
> that did not exist before.
>
> Note that e.g. CD-Text is using ISO-8859-1 and guess what funny things happen
> when people wo believe that UNICODE is the solution for all problems create a
> GUI for cdrecord that allows to enter CD-Text from the keyboard.
This problems existed before -- e.g. what if someone was using a different 8859
standard (e.g. in Russia.) The fact that their program, or yours, assumed that
8859-1 was in use, was a bad assumption.
- Garrett
>
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