On Thursday 12 July 2007, Henning Thielemann wrote: > 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. :-]
The last release of Pine came out 28 September 2005; the last release to add new features came out 10 May 2004; the last time the major version number was bumped was 8 July 1998. I can appreciate clinging to old, comfortable software; it took quite a bit to get me to abandon nmh. But I did it, because that software simply doesn't work on the modern internet. A certain level of seriousness is required when making software choices, after all. And some software is just too old to be taken seriously. Jonathan Cast http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-core http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-emacs _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe