Re: [OT] The Case Against... Unicode?

2016-06-01 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 16:26:36 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 16:15:15 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: What Joakim does not understand, is that there are huge, huge quantities of documents that are multi-lingual. That should be obvious to anyone living outside the USA.

Re: [OT] The Case Against... Unicode?

2016-06-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/01/2016 12:26 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 16:15:15 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: What Joakim does not understand, is that there are huge, huge quantities of documents that are multi-lingual. That should be obvious to anyone living outside the USA. Or anyone in

Re: [OT] The Case Against... Unicode?

2016-06-01 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 15:02:33 UTC, Wyatt wrote: If you have to deal with delivering the fastest possible i18n at GSM data rates, well, that's a tough problem and it sounds like you might need to do something pretty special. Turning the entire ecosystem into your special case is not the

Re: [OT] The Case Against... Unicode?

2016-06-01 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 16:15:15 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: What Joakim does not understand, is that there are huge, huge quantities of documents that are multi-lingual. That should be obvious to anyone living outside the USA.

Re: [OT] The Case Against... Unicode?

2016-06-01 Thread Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 15:02:33 UTC, Wyatt wrote: On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 13:57:27 UTC, Joakim wrote: No, I explicitly said not the web in a subsequent post. The ignorance here of what 2G speeds are like is mind-boggling. It's not hard. I think a lot of us remember when a 14.4

[OT] The Case Against... Unicode?

2016-06-01 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 13:57:27 UTC, Joakim wrote: No, I explicitly said not the web in a subsequent post. The ignorance here of what 2G speeds are like is mind-boggling. It's not hard. I think a lot of us remember when a 14.4 modem was cutting-edge. Codepages and incompatible