From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT vs UTF-8 source file names
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:08:08 -0400
Date: 2017-07-04T14:08:08-04:00 [thread overview]
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 10:30:02 -0700 (PDT), Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:
>
>One of unicode's biggest problems is that there's no longer any coherent vision -- it started off as a idea to offer one code-point per character in human language, but then shifted to glyph-building (hence combining characters), and as such lacks a unifying principle.
"glyph-building" though, does have a precedent: European typewriters
with "dead keys" (keys that made marks but did not advance the carriage
position)
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Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-30 17:10 GNAT vs UTF-8 source file names Simon Wright
2017-06-17 17:20 ` Simon Wright
2017-06-27 13:22 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2017-06-27 21:45 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-06-28 5:05 ` G.B.
2017-07-04 13:57 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-04 17:30 ` Shark8
2017-07-04 18:08 ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2017-07-05 5:25 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-06 15:18 ` Shark8
2017-07-07 8:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-05 5:21 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-05 9:47 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-05 11:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-05 18:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-06 18:43 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-07 8:26 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-07 11:01 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-07 11:49 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2017-07-07 19:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-07 19:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-07 21:02 ` Simon Wright
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