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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 13:08:07 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT vs UTF-8 source file names Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:08:08 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <79mnlc5j1mm0254pvkmavm5scfvhhgq4e6@4ax.com> References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.117.234 X-Trace: sv3-nwxNl4qW40PNaK/mlPRYBdQEe4eIkv8cBmbS5AivGfbQVqLaCbRKQ9qAGDekkITclvwJtncFRzL7r+t!AKLvVTy9/uYBCQpRy9wrZIPC3pVweGcSJ5Xbap5gQ3oQ/CJcOyNjH/BeJhCo3o7BKxvaHAsiW9K1!qGLIxEAXTZV56sILQYe1BXQU1JaY X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1849 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47282 Date: 2017-07-04T14:08:08-04:00 List-Id: On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 10:30:02 -0700 (PDT), Shark8 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) -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/