Re: [gnu.org #1363250] ASCII maintain.txt is no longer ASCII

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

John Darrington wrote:
> Secondly, it must map that number to an appropriate glyph and render
> that glyph on its hardware.  There are over 137,000 glyphs in unicode.  I
> would be extremely surprised if any terminal, old or new, can do this
> properly in every case.

And the number of glyphs in unicode continues growing.


> So I'm of the opinion that we should use non-ascii if it delivers some
> advantage, but in the other cases let's be conservative and stick to
> what we know will work for everyone.

Thanks. That is exactly my point.


> A classic case is the copyright symbol.  I see some text files which
> are all ascii except for this character.  This symbol serves no purpose
> except an aesthetic one.

Indeed.


Best regards,
Antonio.