Re: wide-char support with different builds

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:12:51 -0600

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At 2025-01-23T20:40:55-0500, [email protected] wrote:
> 2025/01/18 10:15 ... Mouse:
> > There is no one-size-fits-all character set, nor encoding, nor even
> > serialization, no matter what the priests of the UTF-8 religion
> > would have you believe.
> > 
> > If you want to argue that UTF-8 is the best default, that at least
> > is worth discussing.  But maintaining that there is any single "the
> > right" character set, encoding, or serialization is...nonsense.
> > There is, at most, "right" for a particular use case, or set of use
> > cases.
> 
> ASCII is ugly, Latin-1 is ugly (at the defining meeting, the member
> from France, no printer, no linguist, no typographer, against his
> country s tradition repudiated the letter OE.

Not _his_ country.  A Belgian from Groupe Bull.  As far as I know, the
guy's name has never leaked.  It should.

I suspect the real motive was simply to deny DEC a win, and prevent ISO
from adopting the MCS as-was as Latin-1.

Regards,
Branden

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