27 Mar
2016
27 Mar
'16
11:49 p.m.
On Sunday, 27 March 2016 at 13:47:43 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2016-03-27 13:29, John Cowan wrote:
In the Good Old Days, characters were all the same size, and you could
do nice, simple things like
while (*c && *c++ != " ");
Now you need a whole library to do the same thing.
Greg
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Johnny Billquist scripsit:
Haha. Yes... Except that you now have multiple representations of each
character within one character set. So what has improved??? On 2016-03-27 08:18, Greg 'groggy'
Lehey<grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
Undoubtedly. But things *are* much better than they used to be:
we can now do everything within a single character set, and convert
only at the boundaries (and increasingly, only in one direction). Isn't it wonderful that we no longer have
issues with character
representation?
I hope that comment was meant as a joke, ironic, cynical, or whatever...