On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 01:11, Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Earwin Burrfoot <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Handling Unicode code points outside of BMP is highly expert stuff as >> well. And is totally unneeded by 80% of the users for any other reason >> except "elegance". I think you two guys can really understand each >> other here : ) >> > > you are wrong: you either support unicode, or your application is > buggy. Its not an optional feature, its the text standard used by the > java programming language.
You either handle the the Earth as a proper somewhat-ellipsoid, or your application is buggy. It's not an optional feature, it's even stronger than a standard - it is a physical fact experienced by all of us, earthlings. Though 80% of the users can throw geoids and unicode planes out of the window and live happily with some stupid local coordinate system and two-byte characters (some even manage with one-byte!). Yeah, they don't really care about being buggy in any geo/unicode-zealot's eyes. Having said that, it's cool that people like you two exist :) Because earth is round, maps are ugly, there are lots of different writing systems and someone has to deal with that. -- Kirill Zakharenko/Кирилл Захаренко E-Mail/Jabber: [email protected] Phone: +7 (495) 683-567-4 ICQ: 104465785 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
