Re: Unicode puzzles

The solution to your puzzle: use utf8 to send email to your friends
and family.  Period.


Internationalization Is Bullshit
--------------------------------

Do you really think a menu written in Hindi is of any help for an
Indian user?  Or an hiragana-katakana for a Japanese?  Interface
internationalization is cheap demagogy.  The side effect is more code,
more bugs, more MSWindows addiction (Lennart happy).  Have you tried
to put "Block de notas" (spanish version) instead of notepad in
MSWindows cmd?  Have you realized that Windows XP duplicated the file
system tree, then besides the internationalized one you have *hidden*
the original in English and more or late some application get confused
with the path?  Now you, "The more Unix like Linux distribution out
there" users will claim "But that happens on Windoze".  In Unix happen
worse things, and you know what?, it's not an OS fault.

Furthermore, you don't need utf8 support in virtual consoles for
the same reason you don't need to use your console for seeing your
family pictures or videos.

When some new feature makes it difficult or even *breaks* the original
and important use of some software THE BUG IS IN DEVELOPER'S BRAIN.
And let all that fashion ruled low spirits tell that you've stayed on
70s.  In the near future they will water crops with Gatorade:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/


How Real Men Name Files
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For general rule your files should be portable (Lennart sad).  OS
compatibility, software compatibility (backward compatibility), file
system type compatibility.  Your files must survive traveling across
different protocols in the net, ETC.  Then:

  - Do not use characters that could be problematic for software.  For
    example non ASCII characters.

  - Do not use characters that could be meaningful for programing
    languages.  For example *spaces*, brackets, colons, etc.

For example, use "Documents" instead of "My Documents" (even MSWindows
corrected that idiocy on Windows 7).

In practice.  Name your files using:

  1. ASCII characters (man ascii).

  2. Just letters, numbers, and a casual hyphen.  Start with a letter.


Not so problematic but a good convention (some Unix consoles has no
color support and you may think that is a bad thing; you're wrong):

  3. Start files with lower case and directories with upper case.


Educate others in this subject any time you have the chance.
Remember, prevention is better than cure.



Gentleman.  Thanks for your attention and have a good day.



	Walter