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Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines
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Reuben Thomas |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:31:36 +0000 |
On 23 December 2013 22:30, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I don't see a way around this; nor do I think Unicode should be thought of
> something that is a "specific programming feature": multi-byte encodings
> are the commonest way of dealing with internationalised text, and treating
> them as a bolt-on extra automatically disenfranchises all the communities
> that need them for their languages, which these days, given the demise of
> 8-bit encodings, is pretty much anything other than English.
>
There's a further advantage to showing how to deal with multi-byte
encodings in C, which is that it may scare some programmers into not using
C when they see how horrible it is. (As if the horrors of handling text in
C weren't enough!)
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- [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Sami Kerola, 2013/12/04
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Reuben Thomas, 2013/12/04
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Sami Kerola, 2013/12/04
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Sami Kerola, 2013/12/10
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Jim Meyering, 2013/12/22
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Karl Berry, 2013/12/23
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Reuben Thomas, 2013/12/23
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines,
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- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Karl Berry, 2013/12/23
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Karl Berry, 2013/12/23
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Reuben Thomas, 2013/12/23
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Sami Kerola, 2013/12/25
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Karl Berry, 2013/12/25
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Reuben Thomas, 2013/12/25
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Sami Kerola, 2013/12/25
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Karl Berry, 2013/12/26
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Jim Meyering, 2013/12/26
- Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines, Sami Kerola, 2013/12/27