Thus spake Rober...t:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Brady [mailto:robert@ents.susu.soton.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 5:31 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Cc: Unicode List
> Subject: RE: A basic question on encoding Latin characters
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> In UTF-8 over a TTY, you cannot tell the difference between
>
> a <wait-forever>
> and
> a <very-long-pause-indeed> <combining-ring-above>
>
> unless you use a timeout-based system, which should be
> avoided for Very
> Good Reasons.
>
Would it be terribly churlish of me to point out that, in any encoding
whatsoever, over a TTY, you cannot tell the difference between
hell <wait-forever>
and
hell <freezes-over-pause> o
unless you use a timeout-based system, which should be avoided for Very
Good Reasons?
This is a non-issue; can we get back to real problems?
-gregg
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