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Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:10:02 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
>> Interesting. Why don't they just force the use of some arbitrarily
>> chosen variant of Unicode?
> To avoid "arbitrarily" breaking software systems and development
> environments that target other character sets.
Sorry, I meant "didn't" instead of "don't": these are recent programming
languages, and since Java was able to do it why couldn't Python do it?
> You cannot simply run all files through recode, as that will break
> strings that display on legacy terminals or have been interned
> in databases.
Nice theoretical problem, but I think that Java proves it to be
a non-issue in practice. Anyway, it's too late now,
Stefan
- ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Paul R, 2009/03/03
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Leo, 2009/03/03
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Stefan Monnier, 2009/03/03
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Nobuyoshi Nakada, 2009/03/03
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Stefan Monnier, 2009/03/03
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/03/03
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Stefan Monnier, 2009/03/03
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/03/04
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/03/04
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Stefan Monnier, 2009/03/04
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Paul R, 2009/03/04
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Stefan Monnier, 2009/03/04
- Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding, Nobuyoshi Nakada, 2009/03/04