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Re: All these lonely accents, where do they all come from?

2002-05-07 22:47:53

At 04:31 08/05/2002 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> then there are existing editors and keyboard drivers that don't generate
> normalized text.

Name them, Keith.

Prove that there AREN'T any..

> > Then explain why you think normalization should be put into every
> > program that _handles_ text, instead of the much smaller set of programs
> > (notably, keyboard interfaces) that _produce_ text.
> I didn't say that.

Then why are you demanding that thousands of Internet programs acquire
Unicode normalization features?

Can you *guarantee* that non-normalised text won't ever get into emails? If so, then we'll all come to you for compensation when it does :-) If not, then email software may need the ability to normalise it.


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