Why would anybody who likes ASCII despise UNICODE? I could easily be confused, but US-ASCII is a proper subset of UNICODE. In particular, of UTF-8. Unless I have misunderstood everything I've ever read about Unicode. And both are close, but not identical(?), to ISO8859-1. I normally "tag" z/OS UNIX files which are "ascii" as ISO8859-1.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:49 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
