Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

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From: David Cantrell
Subject: Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)
Date: 18:04 on 17 Oct 2005
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:56:40PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

Well, apart from all those tools that have to process utf-8 text, of
course.  Like M*As, string manipulation libraries, terminals, ...

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