Unicode 7

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/1/2014 7:33 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2014-05-01 23:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> On 5/1/2014 2:04 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>
>>>>> Since its Unicode-troll time, here's my contribution
>>>>> http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html
>>
>> I will not comment on the Unix-assumption part, but I think you go wrong
>> with this:  "Unicode is a Headache". The major headache is that unicode
>> and its very few encodings are not universally used. The headache is all
>> the non-unicode legacy encodings still being used. So you better title
>> this section 'Non-Unicode is a Headache'.
>>
> [snip]
> I think he's right when he says "Unicode is a headache", but only
> because it's being used to handle languages which are, themselves, a
> "headache": left-to-right versus right-to-left, sometimes on the same
> line;

Handling that without unicode is even worse.

> diacritics, possibly several on a glyph; etc.

Ditto.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy