From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist) Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:47:43 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Character sets In-Reply-To: <20160327112920.GH12921@mercury.ccil.org> References: <56F7B14A.7040201@update.uu.se> <20160327112920.GH12921@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <56F7C85F.6060503@update.uu.se> On 2016-03-27 13:29, John Cowan wrote: > Johnny Billquist scripsit: > >> On 2016-03-27 08:18, Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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). Haha. Yes... Except that you now have multiple representations of each character within one character set. So what has improved??? Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol