On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 18:16:32 + (GMT), in perl.unicode you wrote:
> In practice, Perl has long ago replaced grep, sort, tr, awk, for all but
> sentimental reasons.
I'd like to disagree with 'sort'. In some cases, at least, the
system-supplied sort(1) can do disk-based (merge?) sorting, enablin
> Ai.ai, ai! Kludge upon kludge! Surely it really IS a better idea to
> start back at the beginning and rewrite the underlying Lisp engine
> to handle UTF-8, and do it right.
Maybe a misunderstanding. The underlying Lisp engine *never* sees
UTF-8. We are talking about buffer and string represe
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By author:Nerijus Baliunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> HPA>
> HPA> In practice, as all of this painfully illustrates, is that multiple
> HPA> encodings in anything but an isolated environment is ultimately
> HPA> futile. Whereas data in
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 06:16:32PM +, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO-4.html
> >
> > This is still silent about Grep, Sort, and tr, which are
> > the utilities where the non-ASCII support should be a non-
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 04:04:57PM +0200, Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
> On 31 Oct 2001 09:49:21 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> HPA> > Global files such as /etc/*, /usr/include/*, etc. obviously *must* remain
> HPA> > in a locale invariant encoding. This is today ISO 646 IRV (US
> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 18:16:32 + (GMT)
> From: Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Basically, even after reading that page (which told me something I
> > didn't know in some cases), Unicode support in basic development
> > tools is still very much rudimentary.
>
> In practice, Perl has
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 06:16:32PM +, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO-4.html
> >
> > This is still silent about Grep, Sort, and tr, which are
> > the utilities where the non-ASCII support should be a non-
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO-4.html
>
> This is still silent about Grep, Sort, and tr, which are
> the utilities where the non-ASCII support should be a non-trivial
> change.
>
> Basically, even after reading that page (which to
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:29:21AM +1100, Jim Breen wrote:
> ["H. Peter Anvin" (Re: encoding of /etc/passwd) writes:]
> >> By author:Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> >> > > Changing your locale to utf-8 will *not* for instance change the
> >> >
On 31 Oct 2001 09:49:21 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
HPA> > Global files such as /etc/*, /usr/include/*, etc. obviously *must* remain
HPA> > in a locale invariant encoding. This is today ISO 646 IRV (US-ASCII).
HPA> > Hopefully it will one day become UTF-8. ISO 8859-1 has no
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