Tex, would you please add this entry to your Benefits of Unicode page:
"It allows you to overcome bigoted prohibitions on mailing lists".
In fact, it is enough that you choose proper code points (e.g. U+203A from
the General Punctuation block, or U+0455, U+0435, U+0445 from the Cyrillic
block) and you are free to quote entire messages and talk about ѕех, sех,
ѕeх, ѕеx, seх, sеx, ѕex!
_ Marco ☺
› -----Original Message-----
› From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:michka@trigeminal.com]
› Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 05.44
› To: Tex Texin
› Cc: Suzanne M. Topping; unicode@unicode.org
› Subject: Re: benefits of unicode
›
›
› From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
›
› > Can you point me to a reference for Microsoft's strategy, that you
› > mention?
› > It would be useful to anyone promoting Unicode within an
› organization.
›
› Just look at the new languages they added --- not a CP_ACP
› among them! I
› overheard the guy who did the talks for MS at the last IUC
› telling someone
› who asked that this was the offical policy going forward.
›
› > Also, by languages below, you mean programming languages? Or support
› > for new natural languages in existing Microsoft products?
›
› No, I was being silly -- I meant people who spoke language
› ______ who found
› it added to the next version of Windows would pretty much go
› buy someone's
› else's app if yours did not support it. :-)
›
› > Finally, although I agree Microsoft is a strong influence, there are
› > other systems out there, so I have trouble with the leap of
› logic that
› > from a Microsoft action we jump to the consequence that ALL
› > applications are impacted.
›
› Well, I did not mean it to be a global statement. But I tend
› to work under
› the premise that if MS does the right thing somewhere, that
› between it being
› an official MS polisy and the fact that is the best possible
› thing to do,
› things will turn out all right if you bet the same way.
›
› Whenever I doubt the premise, I look at my company and then look at
› Microsoft. That will humble me! <g>
›
› > I am very close to passing a virtual hat around to gather up funds
› > to buy you a non-Microsoft OS. ;-)
›
› Nah, been there, done that. I am having too much fun right where I am.
›
› > See you in Hong Kong!
›
› Certainly will!
›
› Now if I could figure out how come you get to quote whole
› messages and I
› don't, I'll be *really* happy!
›
› MichKa
›
› Michael Kaplan
› Trigeminal Software, Inc.
› http://www.trigeminal.com/
›
›
›
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