Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:20:06PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
>     > From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
> 
>     > On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:54:58PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
>     > >     > There are plenty of languages for which character sets don't 
> even
>     > >     > exist yet. It's almost certain that at least one of them will 
> break
>     > >     > some fundamental assumption.
> 
>     > > Because you, asuffield, know more than the various linguists and
>     > > software hackers who have plotted out the Unicode design rules?
> 
>     > Because anything else is sheer hubris. If you don't have good reason
>     > to believe you're right (and in this case, there's a fairly hefty
>     > region that just hasn't been explored yet), you have to assume that
>     > you probably aren't, and plan accordingly.
> 
> In other words, yes, in your judgement, all of those (quite a few,
> actually) experts lack "good reason" for their product and you know
> better?

I seriously doubt that any significant number of them claim unicode to
be the last word in the character encoding problem, or even vaguely
complete.

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