--- Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- "Mr. Nobody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: > > > > > Ah, that's a different question. Having Unicode synonyms may > > well > > > > be > > > > > considered reasonable thing > > > > > > > > Sounds like the good old days of trigraphs. > > > > > > It's very much like the good old days of trigraphs. But on the plus > > > side, once all the losers get their fonts/xterms/editors > > up-to-speed on > > > extended character sets, the trigraphs will die a forgotten death. > > > > > > Oh, glorious future ... > > > > > > =Austin > > > > How about people who can't? Lots of people don't own the computer > > they're using, so to upgrade stuff they'd have to ask the sysadmin. > > And you know what happens when you annoy the sysadmin... > > You remember that stoner kid who always sat at the back of the class > and pretty much C/D/F'ed every class? > > That's what trigraphs are for -- the middle-to-bottom of the curve. If > you can't upgrade, and your admin won't upgrade, then you learn to use > the trigraphs. > > Right now almost all of us are in that boat. And we're talking about > trigraph ops, like ~> and <~ and |~> and [+=] and whatever. As we get > better, more Unicapable, whatever, we'll move on to full Unicode ops. > > Look at MIME -- once, the only way to email a binary file was with > uuencode. A few short years later, presto! Every pinhead in the > marketing department is attaching 4 gigabyte pdf files to their > corporate spam. It's the same thing -- if people want to do something, > and can benefit from it, then they'll drive it to happen. > > Think about what would have happened if someone argued that NO files > should be binary, because we couldn't email binary files -- there'd be > no downloadable internet porn. :-( > > A vote for Unicode is a vote for naked chicks! Go us! > > =Austin >
trigraphs are actually better, even if you are unicode capable. ~> is far easier to type than ctrl-u-15F9E2A01 or whatever it is. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
