Unicode 7

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Thu May 1 14:04:41 EDT 2014


On Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:30:43 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:53:22 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:

> > On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:29:23 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Chase wrote:
> >> While I dislike feeding the troll, what I see here is:
> > Since its Unicode-troll time, here's my contribution
> > http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html

> Also your link to Joel On Software mistakenly links to me instead of Joel.
> There's a missing apostrophe in "Ive" [sic] in Acknowledgment #2.

Done, Done.

> I didn't notice any other typos.

Thank you sir!

> I point out that out of the two most widespread flavours of OS today, 
> Linux/Unix and Windows, it is *Windows* and not Unix which still 
> regularly uses legacy encodings.

Not sure what you are suggesting... 
That (I am suggesting that) 8859 is legacy and 1252 is not?

> I disagree with much of your characterisation of the Unix assumption,

I'd be interested to know the details -- Contents? Details? Tone? Tenor? Blaspheming the sacred scripture?
(if you are so inclined of course)





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