3 Oct
2008
3 Oct
'08
1:01 a.m.
Fred Drake wrote:
On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
If you don't make a habit of borking your own filesystems with dodgy filenames, it runs fine.
I really hope the individuals making this argument are being facetious. I don't think this is the source of the problem at all.
To quote Raymond: "native speakers of ASCII will never be able to master Unicode like a native"
I.E. not being facetious, so much as underestimating the frequency of the problem occurring in other parts of the world due to living and working in a single language environment where encoding issues almost never arise (and where UTF-8 is by far the most common encoding after ASCII and iso-8859-1).
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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