Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 18:15:25 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <qZDSdWmSVT@ache.dialup.demos.ru> In-Reply-To: <199510161425.KAA07364@exalt.x.org>; from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:25:29 EST References: <199510161425.KAA07364@exalt.x.org>
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In message <199510161425.KAA07364@exalt.x.org> Kaleb S. KEITHLEY
writes:
>>Preferring one particular charset
>>among others leeds into various troubles.
>Such as? I believe that providing a useful defaults is a good thing.
>If you don't provide a useful default then it just compounds what
>a programmer needs to do to write programs. The choice of a particular
>default is usually driven by customer tastes and preferences.
Such as breaking other charsets when default 8859-1 rules crossed
with different current charset. ASCII rules can't be crossed
with _any_ 8bit superset.
>>I dislike X idea
>>to have ISO8859-1 as default charset and think that they need
>>to change it to ASCII.
>Okay, I'll play. I claim that it is ASCII, and I challenge you to write
>a program that proves otherwise. :-)
Sorry, I forget that only left side is defined also 8859-1 name used.
--
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