From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 23:46:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (r45.bfm.org [216.127.220.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741FB37B93E for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id BAA00244; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:45:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:44:55 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: Alex Belits Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000405014455.A228@whizkidtech.net> References: <20000404201412.C261@whizkidtech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:19:06PM -0700 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Castle: http://www.redprince.net/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE X-SG-Player-ID: 0278852114 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:19:06PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote: > It is. However if you look at the current efforts of its "adoption", it >is not used as one. It's touted as the solution to all language-related >problems, as a replacement of language/charset labeling infrastructure >and as the necessary prerequisite for any multilingual text processing. Abusus non tollit usum! Besides, you were criticizing the Unicode Consortium for this. The Consortium is certainly not representing Unicode as anything but a character map. Alex, frankly, we are moving in circles here. Let's drop this thread. Adam -- When a finger points at the Moon... do you look at the Moon? Or, do you prefer to worship the finger? -- Unknown Zen Master To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message