Managing Google Groups headaches

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 02:16:02 -0800, wxjmfauth wrote:

> Rusi:
> 
> "unicode as a medium is universal in the same way that ASCII used to be"
> 
> Probably, you do not realize deeply how this sentence is correct.
> Unicode and ascii are constructed in the same way. It has not even to do
> with "characters", but with mathematics.
> 
> It is on this level the FSR fails. It is mathematically wrong by design!


I'm reminded of that fellow, I don't remember his name, who *years* after 
the Wright Brothers had flown, and there were dozens of people building 
aeroplanes, was still trying to convince everyone that heavier-than-air 
flight was mathematically impossible.


-- 
Steven