Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:54:58PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
>     > There are plenty of languages for which character sets don't even
>     > exist yet. It's almost certain that at least one of them will break
>     > some fundamental assumption.
> 
> Because you, asuffield, know more than the various linguists and
> software hackers who have plotted out the Unicode design rules?

Because anything else is sheer hubris. If you don't have good reason
to believe you're right (and in this case, there's a fairly hefty
region that just hasn't been explored yet), you have to assume that
you probably aren't, and plan accordingly.

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