Ido Yehieli wrote: >>>Is this idea absurd or will one day our children think >>>that restricting to 7-bit ascii was absurd? > > Both... this idea will only become none-absurd when unicode will become > as prevalent as ascii, i.e. unicode keyboards, universal support under > almost every application, and so on. Even if you can easly type it on > your macintosh, good luck using it while using said macintosh to ssh or > telnet to a remote server and trying to type unicode...
[~]$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Linux rkernx2 2.6.12-9-amd64-generic #1 Mon Oct 10 13:27:39 BST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Last login: Mon Jan 9 12:40:28 2006 from 192.168.1.141 [~]$ cat > utf-8.txt x + y ≥ z [~]$ cat utf-8.txt x + y ≥ z Luck isn't involved. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
