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Subject: Re: Strange crash on custom iterator
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Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53625
Date: 2018-07-04T15:04:11-07:00
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On Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 2:05:17 PM UTC-6, Lucretia wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 20:53:21 UTC+1, Shark8  wrote:
>=20
> > But let's take a step backward; what about displaying the text? One cer=
tainly could argue that Unicode is a good solution in this arena, after all=
 havng the ability to encode all of human language is it's stated design-go=
al, so surely it must be well-suited to that, right?
>=20
> You're wrong. Unicode is not about displaying text, it even says that in =
the spec, it's about representation. Stop trying to force Unicode into Lisp=
 or Forth or whatever to try to add meaning to text.

I didn't say it *was*, I used display as an example.
But you bring up a good point: it's a terrible representation, for all that=
 I've said, and more.