Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
Andrew Coppin wrote:
Wait... I thought Unicode was still an experimental prototype? Since
when does it work in the real world??
That myth is as old as "Haskell is an experimental prototype". "Old"
as in "that's an old one".
Windows has been well supporting Unicode since 2000. That is pretty
much of the real world.
The only reason you see α as the Greek letter alpha and not scrambled
code is that I send it as Unicode and your Windows and Thunderbird
also support Unicode and therefore they display it to you properly.
The whole scheme works so well and so transparently that you didn't
even notice it.
"No one notices when things are right."
That is, indeed, impressive.
Alex Queiroz wrote:
You must look out more. I use áéíóúç in web pages all the time.
I even use Chinese. (And no, not those big5 or gb2312 funny business.)
Interesting... I tried to put a pound sign on my web page, and it came
out garbled, so I had to replace it with "£"...
(BTW, I always wondered how the Asian and Chinese people do any work
with computers, given that the ASCII character set doesn't even include
any characters in their alphabet...)
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