Dan Kogai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> on 01.8.8 1:54 AM, Andreas Marcel Riechert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Why should Unicode be the "de facto standard for internal
> > representation"? ...or "internal standard" to whom, or what? In perl
> > that could happen, but as a general statement I cannot agree, but
> > anyway I would like to hear your reasoning.
>
> I am not a big fan of Unicode but even I cannot ignore the fact that two
> most prevalent OSes, Windows and MacOS, internally uses Unicode, I think it
> was fair to say so (I was even careful enough to say "de facto").
Okay accepted ;-) When I read "internal representation" I thought
about applications, but OS's didn' cross my mind. My fault to
missunderstand you.
> We all know only too well the best not always prevail. TAD wins
> engineering beauty contest but too bad it didn't get enough support from
> those who code to make their ends meet.
TAD which reminds me in many areas of Apples Worldscript should win
the beauty contest and I hope TAD will survive as an alternative to
Unicode. BTW, the only TAD based machine I use/play with at the moment
is a (more or less useless) B-TRON (CHO-Kanji) system.
> As for EUC-JP, yes, EUC-JP is the internal code of Jcode (because Jcode
> was born pre-5.6 days and it needs to continue to work on 5.0.x). I would
> even say EUC-JP is the best so long as your piece of code is 'mere'
> bilingual.
I think EUC-JP is the best choice you could make.
Allmost all my programms use EUC-JP internally. And at least for a
while I won't change to Unicode.
> >> Dan the Developer of Jcode
> > Andreas Marcel the happy and thankfull user of Jcode
>
> Thank you for using my humble code.
...Used it just 2 minutes ago for a quick (EUC-JP Octal-Numbers)
-->(sjis) hack for viewing some C source code hashes on my Macintosh.
Defintely one of the modules without I won't travel.
> Dan the Man with Too Many Charsets to Deal with
Me too :-)
Andreas Marcel
