Re: [TFUI] internationalization

From: "Ron Jeffries" <jeffries.at.dundee.net-hHKSG33Tihg+1LFaA5+Ji38/[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TFUI] internationalization


> On Tuesday, July 6, 2004, at 6:29:07 PM, Phlip wrote:
>
> > Parenthetically, Microsoft is pushing for everyone to
> > run VS8 in Unicode mode (yes, folks, compiling C++
> > from UTF-16 instead of ASCII the way dieties
> > intended). You'd be amazed how they shriek when you
> > recommend to put raw escape codes into your strings.
>
> Actually, if anyone's characters are going to be 16 bits, we'd be better
of
> if everyone's were.
>
> Of course we'd be even better off still if characters were real objects
> instead of those weird half-bunned things.

I was going to say that they are in real languages like Python,
but then I rememberd that Python doesn't even have characters,
it has character strings. Characters are simply a character string
of length one.

Unless you're talking about the BDFL and the Timbot. Those
are characters.

John Roth
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