Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:48:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Euro key ? Message-ID: <199804230048.RAA15593@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199804222054.OAA05690@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 22, 98 02:54:08 pm
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> > I disagree. We're trying to use Unicode in a commercial application, > > and we've come to the conclusion that Unicode is *NO* better than > > shifted wide-char support. I forgot: o I can't use my 7-bit NRCS-using terminals any more. o I have to change printers unless I license PostScript. o I can't simpy do character replacement in an editor because the new character may take more or fewer cahracters than the last one, even though there are the same number of characters. o I can't use a binary editor to blow strings into a file, for the same reason. o I am incompatible with the most widely deployed character encoding standard in the world (Windows 9x/NT use unencoded 16 bit Unicode). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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