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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST
Message-ID: <1993Jan9.015745.26419@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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In article <1iksfhINN4s0@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
>In article <"our.bsdi.clip".1993Jan8.072720.9554@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>>[stuff deleted]
>
>I admit that i'm giving up. It is useless to argue against a person who
>makes illogical statements. My life philoshophy includes a point on not
>preventing people from learning on their own mistakes if they're unable
>to learn on past mistakes of other people.
>
>Go on, Terry. Prove the that you're wizard you claim to be. I have a
>better ways of killing my time than arguing with you.
This is too bad; you, at least, did not resort to ad-hominim attacks, and
had several good points in favor of your arguments (even though you weren't
willing to discuss your arguments pro your approach, and instead focussed
almost entirely on trashing the idea of Unicode).
I would still like to hear more about your proposals. I am already well
aware of the pitfalls in mine, and did not need you or anyone else to point
them out to me -- although you did make me consider several points I had
not taken into account, and I am the better for it.
I wish that you would allow me to make constructive comments on your approach,
but other than the fact that you have one and it involves a unified set of
character sets rather than a unified character set (as in Unicode), you have
told me very little that would allow me to implement anything (while Unicode
is not optimal for your proposed applications, at least it can be implemented
from publicly available information).
It is lamentable that you have been so focused on the bad points of Unicode
that you could not discuss the technical aspects of your approach in
sufficient detail to make it a viable alternative.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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or previous employers.
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