Is 0 > None?? (fwd)
Radovan Garabik
spam at melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk
Tue Sep 4 03:06:32 EDT 2001
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> wrote:
: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 21:19:43 +0200, Radovan Garabik <spam at melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> pisze:
:> and you heard correctly that it is a bad idea.
: I never heard a convincing argument.
:> A very bad idea indeed, because it could happen that my program
:> would stop working for anybody with different locale charset.
: Such program would currently not work *at all* - hardly an improvement.
At least it forces the author think about the issue - not just assume
everybody uses latin1 (as is the case in many programs).
well, I would prefer utf-8 encoding - this is what one
can expect to use when there is already need for unicode
strings.
:> And for those on OpenBSD as well (since OpenBSD does not have proper
:> locale support)
: So because of poor locale support on OpenBSD it won't work on Linux?
: Let's drop os.fork then - it's not available under Windows.
it is, for cygwin version <wink>
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