From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 1:14: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (dsl-206.169.4.82.wenet.com [206.169.4.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F024B37B8C5 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA12339; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:15:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:15:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20000405014455.A228@whizkidtech.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > 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. Actually I criticize IETF, W3C, software companies and "internationalization" standards that they produce. Unicode consortium has its own share of troublemaking and arrogance, however replacement of languages support with Unicode adoption became the IETF policy on "internationalization". > Alex, frankly, we are moving in circles here. Let's drop this thread. Huh? -- Alex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie! -- Anonymous Coward To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message