From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 22 17:48:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21650 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:48:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21374 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:48:18 GMT (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17823; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:48:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd017793; Wed Apr 22 17:48:16 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15593; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:48:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199804230048.RAA15593@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Euro key ? To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:48:15 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804222054.OAA05690@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 22, 98 02:54:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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