On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:20:56AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-07-06 13:43:28 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:32:18PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: [adding back in the attribution that I mistakenly squashed] On Mon, Jul 06 at some time or other, Kenny Thomas said: > > > > If a user insists on configuring their terminal to use a encoding > > > > that cannot display all of the charecters in the charecter sets that > > > > they want to communicate in, things will break. > > > > > > I don't see why it will break (prove it!). This is not because some > > > character cannot be displayed that it cannot be handled internally. > > > > s/display/use/. > > I've said *displayed*. Yes you did... but Kenny wrote *display*. See the text I wrote? It says *display*, not displayed. > If you're so stupid to change my words, that's not surprising you > find things broken. I was changing Kenny's words -- not yours -- to properly reflect that the problem is not only a display problem. For you to solve your problem universally (i.e. across all possible applications where you may run into this issue) the way you are trying to, every application needs to be character-set-aware. This is very obviously a monumental waste of effort. Unicode was created exactly in response to the problem of people trying to solve the character set interoperability problem in exactly that incredibly brain-damaged way. Unicode has subsequently been adopted by *every major computer operating system* because it is so clearly the only sane solution to the problem. One man stands, unwavering, and unthinking, to stem the tide of progress, to root us in the dark ages, to witness all speaking in tongues; an immovable force, the Juggernaut: Vincent Lefevre. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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