Re: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

2001-06-07 Thread Buddha Buck
Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >It does bring up a deeper issue, however. Unicode is, at the moment, > >apparently inadequate to represent at least some part of the asian > >languages. Are the encodings currently in use less inadequ

RE: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

2001-06-07 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I think I'd agree there. Different versions of a glyph are more a matter of >art and handwriting styles, and that's not really something we ought to get >involved in. But the human sitting in front of the machine cannot see the bit pattern, they can

Re: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

2001-06-07 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >It does bring up a deeper issue, however. Unicode is, at the moment, >apparently inadequate to represent at least some part of the asian >languages. Are the encodings currently in use less inadequate? I've been >assuming that an Anything->Unicode tran

RE: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

2001-06-07 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: David L. Nicol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > a caseless character wouldn't show up in > > either IsLower or IsUpper. > > maybe an IsCaseless is warrented -- or Is[Upper|Lower] > could return UNKNOWN instead of TRUE|FALSE, if the > extended boolean attributes all