On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 12:17 , Suzanne M. Topping wrote: >> As Kato pointed out, Unicode is more pro-programmers than >> pro-users. > > This is true of any character set. Users are not at all concerned with > how their script is stored. Most would prefer to never know about, hear > about, or think about the concept. They just want to be able to write > what they need to write. > > It's up to programmer types to implement character sets to allow this to > happen.
Right. It is up to programmers to decide how something is represented in programs. But good programmers focus on users and bad ones focus on programs. Bad programs are easy to replace; You only have to write a better one. Bad data structures, however, are so hard to replace and it takes more than good programs to fix'em. Y2K is a good example. It was not program's bug but that of data representation. Dan the Victim of Too Many Bad Data Structures
