On May 23, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Jim Allan wrote:
Wasn’t it Microsoft who invented ODBC which has been generally
adopted in the Linux and Unix world as well?
It's glue. Not even Microsoft can sell broken glue.
How has Microsoft screwed up Unicode? (Yes, I am aware that the
identify the \ characters with the ¥ character on Japanese
computers, but that is the only example I know of where they go
against Unicode.) Seems to me they were the most persistent
supporters of Unicode in the early days when no-one else was
supporting it.
I have heard that it was Microsoft that started the unapproved and
frequently maddening trick of putting a BOM into UTF-8.
--
John W Kennedy
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich
have always objected to being governed at all."
-- G. K. Chesterton. "The Man Who Was Thursday"
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