On 25/04/2014 09:14, Pekka Paunio wrote:
There seems to be all sorts of annoyances that have to do with
character sets.
For me it is not necessary to use non us characters but these things
take time unnecessarily.
There is a Cambridge Computer Science exam question:
"Explain why even experienced programmers have difficulties with
character sets."
Originally you were expected to write an essay about escape sequences on
flexowriter tapes (five bit wide paper tapes); in my day we were
expected to write about conversions between ASCII and EBCDIC. I don't
know whether the question is still asked with unchanged wording but can
see no reason why it shouldn't be! - today's essay might be about
something like how to represent Chinese in the "from" line of an email.
--
Tim Ward
