Le 24 avr. 07 à 19:03 Soir, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit:

> On Apr 24, 2007, at 16:58 UTC, Kirk Gray wrote:
>
>> Having slept on our encoding discussion from yesterday, I'm wondering
>> if what you want to do is simply display special characters rather
>> than defining your own encoding.
>
> I'm not Arnaud, but I don't think he ever seriously wanted to define
> his own encoding.  He was just using that as a mental exercise to
> understand what encodings are.

Almost true, but I also wanted to know where encodings are stored in  
the OS (like, for example, the keyboard layouts for which I've  
created mine).

> I agree, there should never be a need to invent a new encoding --
> Unicode is the One True Encoding (er, well, several related encodings
> that is) to rule them all.  And it'll last forever...

Imagine an encoding with only those letters:  
{a,f,g,i,j,m,n,r,s,t,u,v,x,z} and {+,/,÷,?,(,ç}.
Marvelous! :-P
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