In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of "Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:23:50 +0100." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>* Tom Christiansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [081126 23:55]: >> On "Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:18:01 PST."--or, for backwards compatibility, >> at 7:18:01 p.m. hora Romae on a.d. VI Kal. Dec. MMDCCLXI AUC, >> Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> SUMMARY: I've been looking into this sort of thing lately (see p5p), >> and there may not even *be* **a** "right" answer. The reasons >> why take us into an area we've traditionally avoided. > What a long message... It *was*? That was approaching a medium in my epistolary (and RFC) world, the one unrelated to PostIt notes. I can therefore see you've never been FMTEYEWTK'd, and thus also to all outward appearances, we've not made each other's acquaintance. I'm tchrist; pleased to meet you. Read the //www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/ treatise, as I have repeatedly done, and you will quickly reassess your length calls. This is not necessarily a good thing. Neal Stephenson can do the same, and of far lesser utility. --tom