From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a24:69c2:: with SMTP id e185-v6mr1472349itc.55.1530734716460; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:05:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a54:4e94:: with SMTP id c20-v6mr667192oiy.5.1530734716212; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsreader5.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!u78-v6no1987115itb.0!news-out.google.com!l67-v6ni1904itl.0!nntp.google.com!d7-v6no1997300itj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 13:05:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=90.197.114.51; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.197.114.51 References: <70c11a71-3832-4f57-8127-f3f1c48a052f@googlegroups.com> <887212304.552080112.848502.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <87muvan83x.fsf@adaheads.home> <1449870001.552246132.581310.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <5de5f768-40bf-4518-a647-22788658de74@googlegroups.com> <64454862-b293-4ed7-9c3e-c8a1252344db@googlegroups.com> <0ebf920a-61fa-47e8-a34f-54da2e143bb6@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <6af9d974-b2b4-4ab9-82e6-690ffaee2901@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Strange crash on custom iterator From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 20:05:16 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2883 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2346005767 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53614 Date: 2018-07-04T13:05:15-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 20:53:21 UTC+1, Shark8 wrote: > But let's take a step backward; what about displaying the text? One certa= inly could argue that Unicode is a good solution in this arena, after all h= avng the ability to encode all of human language is it's stated design-goal= , so surely it must be well-suited to that, right? You're wrong. Unicode is not about displaying text, it even says that in th= e spec, it's about representation. Stop trying to force Unicode into Lisp o= r Forth or whatever to try to add meaning to text.