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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-06 18:44:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eusc.inter.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 01:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <3F7F760E.2020901@comcast.net> <3F80AFE4.4010901@comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1065491080 25323 134.91.1.34 (7 Oct 2003 01:44:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 01:44:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:355 Date: 2003-10-07T01:44:40+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: : If you are that familiar with Unicode... (Ordered a copy of ISO 10646 1) I was thinking, or dreaming as it now turns out, of I/O streams where Unicode has been used "properly", i.e. where PI has been chosen to be a MATHEMATICAL PI, but alas, there is no such PI among the 29 PIs, even among the 15 MATHEMATICAL bold, italic, small, and capital PIs. (No small caps PI at least ;-) : But I would hesitate to even : try to come up with a language independent mapping. For example Pi is a : mathematical symbol in English, but a capital letter in Greek. Ah well, I'm beginning to see the difficulties, thanks. The Babel effect won't be stopped by Unicode ;-) Georg