I don't generally respond to Shmuel's animadversions. This time, however, he has crossed the line of civilized behavior.
His experience with Unicode appears to be limited to attentive reading of its defining documents. Its implementations are, unsurprisingly, imperfect. In particular the several UTF-8 implementations with which I am more familiar than I should wish to be are very imperfect indeed. If I argued that the comments prefixed to a routine described its putative algorithm correctly and that the routine itself could thus contain no error, Shmuel would still hopefully be quick to point out the inadequacy of my argument; but here he is guilty of the same sort of cocksure silliness. He wondered what I had been drinking. I wonder if he is not suffering from senile dementia. He is certainly exhibiting some of its characteristic symptoms. 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
