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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.015745.26419@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 01:57:45 GMT
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- In article <1iksfhINN4s0@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
- >In article <"our.bsdi.clip".1993Jan8.072720.9554@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >
- >>[stuff deleted]
- >
- >I admit that i'm giving up. It is useless to argue against a person who
- >makes illogical statements. My life philoshophy includes a point on not
- >preventing people from learning on their own mistakes if they're unable
- >to learn on past mistakes of other people.
- >
- >Go on, Terry. Prove the that you're wizard you claim to be. I have a
- >better ways of killing my time than arguing with you.
-
- This is too bad; you, at least, did not resort to ad-hominim attacks, and
- had several good points in favor of your arguments (even though you weren't
- willing to discuss your arguments pro your approach, and instead focussed
- almost entirely on trashing the idea of Unicode).
-
- I would still like to hear more about your proposals. I am already well
- aware of the pitfalls in mine, and did not need you or anyone else to point
- them out to me -- although you did make me consider several points I had
- not taken into account, and I am the better for it.
-
- I wish that you would allow me to make constructive comments on your approach,
- but other than the fact that you have one and it involves a unified set of
- character sets rather than a unified character set (as in Unicode), you have
- told me very little that would allow me to implement anything (while Unicode
- is not optimal for your proposed applications, at least it can be implemented
- from publicly available information).
-
- It is lamentable that you have been so focused on the bad points of Unicode
- that you could not discuss the technical aspects of your approach in
- sufficient detail to make it a viable alternative.
-
- Regards,
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
- ---
- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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