On 10/19/05, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:00:40PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > If that's the only thing about the Unicode charset that you find hateful
> > then you've not looked at it very hard.
> I find especially hateful people who whine about Unicode.
I think most people here think that Unicode is a Good Idea. It's just a
good idea badly implemented.
Putting a fucking snowman in the character set is Stupid. Then there's
the 'Floral Heart', U+2766, about a thousand different arrow symbols,
... Just look at all the shit in the Dingbats block! Sorry, but if you
want decorative symbols, pay a graphic designer for some graphics, they
do not belong in a character set.
Variable width characters are Stupid too.
You've missed a Bloody Huge Wodge of Unicode stupidity, which is that
it does CJKV character sets so badly that most East Asians ignore it
(which is why Ruby's Unicode support doesn't exist):
http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20050822/033034.html
But at least the snowmen are happy.
-- Yoz
