Golly gee, all this Phoenecianan talk just makes me wanna sing dance!
Yee-Haw!
Oh Lord let me flog yet another dead horse
I ain't got a life so I love it of course
Just hand me a whip and I will be so glad
So lord let me flog yet another dead horse!
Yer ol' pal,
Youtie
On: 2004-03-31 06:43:38 -0800 Peter Kirk peterkirk at qaya.org scribed:
The only alternative I see is to rewrite from scratch the display
routines of my favourite OS. I think banging my head against walls is
likely to be faster. After all, even the hardest wall cracks eventually,
and my head is
Just a while back there, Jony Rosenne wrote:
We need an official Unicode Lint.
Jony
Lint? Oh, do you mean a program that polices mail list replies and
eliminates those snappy one-line replies that quote over 150 lines of the
original message for no particular purpose?
Yer ol' pal,
Youtie
Speaking of Orwellian nightmare scenarios, I don't get this reference. I
read Homage to Catalonia, but could someone please explain this Orwellian
nightmare? I can't figure out, what does the Spanish civil war have to do
with Unicode?
Yer ol' pal,
Youtie
Mr. William Overington wrote responding to Marco...
... you pretend to
respond to a non-existent company which cannot vote in elections
yet which may be able to pay to have a vote at a Unicode Technical
Committee meeting, which an individual cannot do! :-)
As far as I know, nothing in the
Michael Everson wrote:
At 10:53 + 2002-11-07, William Overington wrote:
In fact, I will try to write it up in the form of a case history
in the style of a portfolio item for a National Vocational
Qualification portfolio of the system used in England.
Please don't. William, no one really
Barry wrote ...
The thread last week on comet circumflex briefly veered ...
While surfing over the weekend, I came across a presentation
Which leads us to RFC 1925 and the eleventh truth of networking:
(11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different
name and a
Unicode now has a serious competitor. Please read
about it at www.bytext.org. Everyone on this list
should find it extremely interesting.
Goll dang! Just what ah've bin waitin' fer!
Code points is gettin' way too expensive in Unicode,
so I sure hope bytext is sellin' 'em cheaper.
Yer ol' pal,
Howdy there...
I've been following this thread about the deficiencies of Unicode, and its
pretty much a hoot and a holler. If anyone can devise a better solution,
please feel free to stage a coup d'etat and overthrow the hegemony of
Unicode. I'm sure it could be done better: in an ideal world
it!
Don't like 'em? Vote 'em out!
-- Youtie Effaight
(Argonaut in Training)
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There has been a whole gob of e-mail exchanged recently in all of this
controversy about UTF-8S. As a casual observer, I would like to take this
opportunity to point out some things.
The kind of end-user input floating around on the Unicode list is very
important and I'm sure UTC people
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