RE: ASCII adequacy (was: RE: benefits of unicode)

2001-04-23 Thread Edward Cherlin
At 3:19 PM -0700 4/20/01, Asmus Freytag wrote: At 03:50 PM 4/20/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I say 0 and 1 are adequate. I find this discussion rather pointless since we all already know that ASCII is adequate if the given premise is that ASCII is adequate. I don't see what's there to

Re: ASCII adequacy (was: RE: benefits of unicode)

2001-04-20 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:31:10AM -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote: Errr - my point is: "If you attempt to promote Unicode by saying that it now enables adequate computing in English, you will not be well received." What's yours? Depends on who you're talking to and what you

RE: ASCII adequacy (was: RE: benefits of unicode)

2001-04-20 Thread jarkko . hietaniemi
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:31:10AM -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote: Errr - my point is: "If you attempt to promote Unicode by saying that it now enables adequate computing in English, you will not be well received." What's yours? Depends on who you're talking to and what

RE: ASCII adequacy (was: RE: benefits of unicode)

2001-04-20 Thread jarkko . hietaniemi
Perhaps I should have gone with C, but the point was your English-processing English-commented Perl programs are in ASCII. You sent out an ASCII email. If you were (?) English Heavens, no :-) Strictly speaking not even ISO 8859-1 would be enough for Finnish, I think 8859-15 is the first

Re: ASCII adequacy (was: RE: benefits of unicode)

2001-04-20 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:43:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heavens, no :-) Strictly speaking not even ISO 8859-1 would be enough for Finnish, I think 8859-15 is the first set that covers all the required characters. (But 8859-1 is enough for everyday use.) all your files would

RE: ASCII adequacy (was: RE: benefits of unicode)

2001-04-20 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 03:50 PM 4/20/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I say 0 and 1 are adequate. I find this discussion rather pointless since we all already know that ASCII is adequate if the given premise is that ASCII is adequate. I don't see what's there to discuss. We are just trying to see if tautologies

RE: ASCII adequacy (was: RE: benefits of unicode)

2001-04-20 Thread jarkko . hietaniemi
Also, you're part of the problem. "8859-1 is enough for everyday use." Yes, and rather proud of it, in the same way as opposition is the way to healthy democracy. Also, we are not the guilty ones, we use what's given to us, I would say the guilty ones are the "adequate" designers of the