Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?

From: Peter Jacobi (peter_jacobi@gmx.net)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 14:31:38 CDT

Next message: E. Keown: "Re: Response to Everson Ph and why Jun 7? fervor"

Previous message: D. Starner: "Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?"
In reply to: jcowan@reutershealth.com: "Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?"
Next in thread: Dean Snyder: "Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

Oh, well this was already discussed back an forth some ten
days ago - as most of this thread.

jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
> If they're lucky. The less lucky will only get default-UCA sorting. The
> least lucky will get nothing but binary codepoint sorting and a few
> language-specific hacks.

Non default-UCA collations are universally deployed.

Applications and tools with user- or community configurable
tailoring of collations are available, also as FOSS.

So, those stuck with 'default-UCA' are not less lucky, but less
willing to switch. This sounds like self-inflicted harm to me.

Best Regards,
Peter Jacobi

-- 
NEU : GMX Internet.FreeDSL
Ab sofort DSL-Tarif ohne Grundgebühr: http://www.gmx.net/dsl

Next message: E. Keown: "Re: Response to Everson Ph and why Jun 7? fervor"
Previous message: D. Starner: "Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?"
In reply to: jcowan@reutershealth.com: "Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?"
Next in thread: Dean Snyder: "Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Mon May 24 2004 - 14:33:03 CDT