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On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 00:14 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-10-17 00:05]: > > Well except there isn't a =C2=AB or =C2=BB on any keyboard I have see= n > > recently, are we reinventing APL here ?=20 >=20 > You can use ASCII transliterations of all operators, like <<>> > for =C2=AB=C2=BB. But in Vim you enter them as digraphs. That's pure evil. I can handle whitespace nonsense, but that's just put me right off perl6. All languages should handle input and output in all character sets, but none of them should be written in anything but ASCII. At least for the next 20 years. Maybe then things will be different, but for now the breakage is just huge. Well, we've even seen it tonight, something as simple as email. Cheers, Martin. PS. Is there a hardware hate list around? I couldn't find one. And I have some serious hardware hate. I hope you don't mind the intrusion: Spent most of the day fixing in place and wiring up a new cctv camera. Finally got it all finished and perfect. Plugged it in, ENOWORK. Turns out the fucker takes a 9V supply, unlike all other cctv cameras which take 12V. So now it's landfill and I've got to start all over again. Of course, when I tested it initially I used the power supply that came with it, so it worked fine. And there was no big fat red warning telling of the difference of this power supply from the others. It's even exactly the same type of power connector. Bollocks.There's stuff above here
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