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!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT vs UTF-8 source file names Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 07:25:11 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 05:21:30 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="74830e7abe8176ae62ff5365c235ac6a"; logging-data="29565"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1++4BXcE1U+y3Sv5g8HrJmz" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr Cancel-Lock: sha1:JrvtGwUb2lfhgj02fe6/DE3dZjE= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47295 Date: 2017-07-05T07:25:11+02:00 List-Id: Le 04/07/2017 à 19:30, Shark8 a écrit : > This is why I maintain that unicode is crap -- a mistake along the > lines of C that will likely take *decades* for the rest of "the > industry" / computer science to realize. Please don't make such statements until you understand all the issues - the problem of character sets is incredibly complicated. >> I have to say that, great as it would be to have this fixed, the >> changes required would be extensive, and I can’t see that anyone >> would think it worth the trouble. > 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. The unifying principle is the normalization forms. The fact that there are several normalization forms comes from the difference between human and computer needs. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr