Re: [Fgs-bs] Welcome and feature list

[Desired Username]

--- tps12 <address@hidden> wrote:
> Desired Username wrote:
> >>Well, whose fault is it if those English speakers
> >>don't have proper 
> >>international font support?
> > 
> > This is a system thing, right?  So if we did the
> Right
> > Thing, it wouldn't work?
> 
> What do you mean by a "system thing?"

I mean no matter we did, they'd still have to have the
right fonts installed and so on to be able to handle
people's "real" names.  

> > More importantly, if you passed users around
> > internally by UID, you'd have to do a lookup every
> > time to get their data, whereas an array is random
> > access.
> 
> Right, the UID would replace the username for things
> like room owner, 
> ladder participant, &c.. Array index would still be
> used for temporary 
> structures like the list of people in a room.

OK, good.  Just checking, some people appear sane
until you see how they program...

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