On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:30 am, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Unicode was 25 years late to the game
I don't understand that comment. Are you suggesting that the oldest
convention wins? The Unix 8-column convention is older than Unicode, so it
wins?
Well... in that case, there are tab conventions that pre-date Unix, e.g.
those used by COBOL. The tabs command offers them as pre-defined standards.
From the man page:
-c 1,8,12,16,20,55
COBOL, normal format.
But wait... before there was COBOL, there were *typewriters*. Its been many
years since I've had my hands on a manual typewriter, but if I remember
correctly the standard default tab setting was 1 inch.
So there you go. Unix was 50+ years late to the game.
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