Re: Some rationale for the mixed encoding scheme

2004-06-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:06 AM -0400 6/15/04, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: I do realize that the Big ICU Patch tossed a lot of the infrastructure for this, which broke parrot for folks who can't/won't do ICU. (And there are a number of folks shut out of development because they c

Re: Some rationale for the mixed encoding scheme

2004-06-15 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I do realize that the Big ICU Patch tossed a lot of the > infrastructure for this, which broke parrot for folks who can't/won't > do ICU. (And there are a number of folks shut out of development > because they can't get ICU going) That'll be put back over

Some rationale for the mixed encoding scheme

2004-06-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
Since I know this is going to come up, I figure I should pre-empt it and be done with it. (Though I should've put this in the string document. Ah, well. Hopefully timing isn't everything, or I am *so* in trouble...) Why aren't we converting to Unicode on the edge? Since, after all, any Sane La