On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 12:17 , Suzanne M. Topping wrote:
>> As Kato pointed out, Unicode is more pro-programmers than
>> pro-users.
>
> This is true of any character set. Users are not at all concerned with
> how their script is stored. Most would prefer to never know about, hear
> about, or think about the concept. They just want to be able to write
> what they need to write.
>
> It's up to programmer types to implement character sets to allow this to
> happen.
Right. It is up to programmers to decide how something is represented
in programs. But good programmers focus on users and bad ones focus on
programs. Bad programs are easy to replace; You only have to write a
better one. Bad data structures, however, are so hard to replace and it
takes more than good programs to fix'em. Y2K is a good example. It was
not program's bug but that of data representation.
Dan the Victim of Too Many Bad Data Structures
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