Without, of course, agreeing with them, I am, again of course, familiar with Paul Gilmartin's 'I hate EBCDIC' refrain. More interesting in the question: Do he and that ilk despise UNICODE in equal measure?
He quotes Shmuel's question | Did Il cimento dell'EBCDIC e dell'UNICODE ever get | resolved in Perl? which, even as an Italian speaker, I find mystifying. Shmuel may well be alluding to something specific that I wot not of, but the Italian verb 'cimentare' means 'to put to the test', 'il cimento' means 'the test' or 'the trial'; and all of this is gloriously inspecific. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
