From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V by Richard Miller
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:16:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOw7k5iiLc9hY+fHuSRHVWj7v-QLYXeGJyvTjw27M7-mjVRJ=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1540903281.1546324.1559542232.514E7438@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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I used Ka/Kb/Kc (upper case) for my Fairchild Clipper port, but that
doesn't work on case-insensitive file systems.
I did once make the changes for unicode, but again there can be problems
with non-Plan9 file systems, even now.
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 12:43, Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, at 4:52 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
> >
> > Is there a technical reason (beside fonts that do not cover them) not
> > to use a Unicode values for the first letter?
>
> Not a major reason, but at least one of Plan 9's build tools compares them
> as C chars, and would need to be fixed. I can't remember which one it is
> right now.
>
> --
> Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long --
> Ogden Nash
>
>
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-27 7:24 Skip Tavakkolian
2018-10-27 18:24 ` Sean Hinchee
2018-10-27 18:45 ` hiro
2018-10-28 11:38 ` Richard Miller
2018-10-28 19:23 ` hiro
2018-10-30 17:03 ` Richard Miller
2018-10-28 11:32 ` Richard Miller
2018-10-28 12:41 ` arnold
2018-10-28 13:55 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-10-28 15:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2018-10-28 18:48 ` David du Colombier
2018-10-28 19:03 ` Steve Simon
2018-10-29 13:02 ` Lucio De Re
2018-10-29 14:07 ` Richard Miller
2018-10-29 16:13 ` Lucio De Re
2018-10-29 16:26 ` Charles Forsyth
2018-10-30 4:52 ` Lucio De Re
2018-10-30 12:41 ` Ethan Gardener
2018-10-30 14:55 ` Steve Simon
2018-10-30 15:16 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2018-10-30 15:37 ` Steve Simon
2018-10-31 13:42 ` Ethan Gardener
2018-10-31 17:04 ` Charles Forsyth
2018-10-30 9:32 ` Anthony Martin
2018-10-30 10:31 ` Richard Miller
2018-10-31 5:18 ` Anthony Martin
2018-10-31 9:36 ` Richard Miller
2018-10-30 15:06 ` Charles Forsyth
[not found] <857020832.6276700.1540912554946.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-10-30 15:15 ` Brian L. Stuart
2018-10-31 13:48 ` Ethan Gardener
2018-11-10 1:04 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-11-10 3:28 ` erik quanstrom
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