Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

[Rhodri James]

On 17/07/18 13:41, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 17/07/18 02:52, Python wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 08:56:11PM +0100, Rhodri James wrote:
>>> The problem everyone is having with you, Marko, is that you are
>>> using the terminology incorrectly. [...] When you call UTF-32 a
>>> variable-width encoding, you are incorrect.
>> But please don't overlook that the "terminology" is in fact rather
>> specialized jargon, far less common than even most computer jargon.
>> Unless you're uncommonly familiar with the subject matter, you simply
>> don't have this vocabulary.  Under the circumstances it seems not
>> horribly unreasonable to expect such a person to consider the bytes
>> required to represent a glyph as an encoding's width, and you as
>> "experts" rightly should expect, let's call them lay people, to make
>> this mistake and adjust for it, or politely correct it, without the
>> condescension.
> 
> If we were talking about lay people, I would unhesitatingly agree with 
> you.  However Marko *does* claim expertise in this area, but then uses 
> what I hope has been demonstrated to be quite careful and deliberate 
> terminology in a manner most politely described as "careless".  This 
> is... not helpful.
> 

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