> Dean and others working with him prefer not to use transliteration. Why > should they be forced to?
They aren't forced to. They are more than welcome to develop their own operating system or patch an existing one. Or they can wait until Unicode 5.0 with cuniform comes out. That doesn't mean that it will magically work right now. > Your allegation that it is a "because-I-can" > thing may well be totally unfounded. Instead of coming up with analogies, can you come up with some reasons why it would be rationally better to use cuniform rather then transliteration in filenames? It's easier to type transliteration, more reliable moving between systems, and more reliable in the same system, given that filenames aren't inherantly linked to one font. > From how I understand what Dean wrote, the issue is a very simple one. > What he wanted did work in Jaguar. It doesn't work in Panther. He is > unhappy about that. That's the type of attitude that drives people nuts. Try seeing the big picture. From what I understand, the issue is a very simple one. Apple broke a feature that was unreliable (by Dean's admission) in order to support another feature that's used much more often that could be made reliable. If Dean's unhappy with that, I'm sorry, but I don't think Apple's going to break their operating system to make his filenames work. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
