Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

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From: Matthew Garrett
Subject: Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)
Date: 15:56 on 17 Oct 2005
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:36:16PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:

> Variable width character sets are themselves hateful.  I'll go further
> and say that they are a spectacularly stupid idea, and that whoever
> decreed them needs shootin'.  Yes, being able to represent more than
> 220-odd characters is a Good Idea.  So damnit, just use 32-bit - or
> 64-bit - characters.  Then you'll be able to seek!

And have to rewrite huge quantities of software. UTF-8 has its 
disadvantages, but there's very little hateful about it - it achieves 
what it sets out to do perfectly, and does so without many tools having 
to be rewritten.
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