On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Jonathan Cast wrote: > On Thursday 12 July 2007, Henning Thielemann wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: > > > Andrew Coppin wrote: > > > > Wait... I thought Unicode was still an experimental prototype? Since > > > > when does it work in the real world?? > > > > > > That myth is as old as "Haskell is an experimental prototype". "Old" as > > > in "that's an old one". > > > > > > Windows has been well supporting Unicode since 2000. That is pretty much > > > of the real world. > > > > > > The only reason you see α as the Greek letter alpha and not scrambled > > > code is that I send it as Unicode and your Windows and Thunderbird also > > > support Unicode and therefore they display it to you properly. > > > > I don't see a greek letter alpha here, but scrambled code in 'pine' here. > > There's your problem right there. Get either a terminal or a mail program > that knows UTF-8.
I do now understand how "well supported" is meant. If a program doesn't support UTF-8/Unicode, that's not the problem of Unicode, but the problem of the program and its users. If we restrict the range of considered applications to those which support UTF-8 then UTF-8 is globally supported. This leads me to an idea: We declare exclusively Haskell programs being "real programs" then we can safely claim that Haskell is the only language, where real programs can be written in. :-] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
