From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Character sets (was: Command-line options)
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 07:29:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160327112920.GH12921@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F7B14A.7040201@update.uu.se>
Johnny Billquist scripsit:
> On 2016-03-27 08:18, Greg 'groggy' Lehey<grog at lemis.com> wrote:
> >Isn't it wonderful that we no longer have issues with character
> >representation?
>
> I hope that comment was meant as a joke, ironic, cynical, or whatever...
Undoubtedly. But things *are* much better than they used to be:
we can now do everything within a single character set, and convert
only at the boundaries (and increasingly, only in one direction).
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
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2016-03-27 10:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 11:29 ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-03-27 11:47 ` [TUHS] Character sets Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 21:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-27 21:53 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 21:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-27 22:19 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 22:21 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-27 23:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-28 0:20 ` John Cowan
2016-03-28 1:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-28 0:18 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 23:30 ` John Cowan
2016-03-27 23:56 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-28 1:54 ` John Cowan
2016-03-28 3:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-03-28 1:20 ` Random832
2016-03-28 1:58 ` John Cowan
2016-03-28 5:12 ` Random832
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