> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:22:00AM -0400, Tim Peters wrote: > > [Andrew Kuchling] > > > Doesn't anyone have *anything* nice to say about Unicode? > > > > Europeans do. > > Nonsense (or should I say, 'hypergeneralization' ? :) Most Europeans can > deal with ISO8859-1 just fine... ... until you start supporting software for non-europeans. The various 8-bit macintosh codesets are hell to deal with, especially because you can't really test how things work if you speak a seven-bit-clean language with your computer as well as your loved ones. I assume the same problems apply to the windows codepage blabla. At least unicode gives the whole world a common ground. Or let me rephrase that as "... should give...". -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm
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