In a message dated 2001-11-25 21:52:58 Pacific Standard Time,
gsinai@yudit.org writes:
> As for cut & paste, it might work among Microsoft Apps
> but if one wants to interface an app with a disclosed
> clipboard format he will realize that he can not paste
> unicode text that contains '\u0000' characters. Impossible.
How much text exists in the real world that legitimately contains U+0000
characters that need to be cut and pasted? What is the meaning or
significance of these characters? If Microsoft apps do not allow U+0000 to
be cut and/or pasted, which I didn't know, this is probably non-conformant
but does not seriously break the apps' Unicode support or show Unicode to be
a non-interoperable standard.
> And how about UCS-4 ? Forget it. As a text format it is not
> even existent.
"Not supported by most current software" would be more correct and more fair.
Most current Unicode-enabled software was not designed with supplementary
characters in mind, and if you dismiss supplementary characters there is
little point in supporting UCS-4 (UTF-32).
> I think it would be much better to look for another
> benchmark engine. If I were Unicode Consortium I would
> build one. Just to prove that the standard works.
> Wait... maybe it does not?
Wonder if any fish will bite at this flame bait...
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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