27 Mar
2016
27 Mar
'16
11:53 p.m.
On 2016-03-27 23:49, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Sunday, 27 March 2016 at 13:47:43 +0200, Johnny
Billquist wrote:
Another one I noted a while ago was that functions and command in Unix,
such as lpq, which try to print things in nice columns now fail, because
the code don't actually know how many characters have been output.
And let's not even talk about such wonderful concepts as colors in the
character set definition... Unicode seems to have it all... I wonder how
many code points exist for 'A'. It's definitely more than one...
Johnny
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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. 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:
> 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...
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).