On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Matthew Szudzik <mszud...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:33:23AM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: ... >> experience by using LC_ALL=C. Oops, never mind, OpenBSD hasn't >> actually implemented "plain ASCII only" for years. > > The fact that OpenBSD doesn't implement "plain ASCII only" doesn't mean > that it shouldn't. ;)
Uh huh, because supporting the needs of developers and users is wrong. > And by the way, the Turing quote is from the paper in which he first > proposed the idea of a mechanical computer. He argued that it is > sufficient for a computer to have a finite character set where each > character can be distinguished at a glance. You're saying that a side-comment in the original Turing machine thought experiment is an argument against character sets with similar characters? Philip Guenther
