From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 08:32:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA11517 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:32:40 -0700 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA11510 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:32:23 -0700 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA12448 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Mon, 16 Oct 1995 19:16:52 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 16 Oct 95 19:16:48 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by ache.dialup.demos.ru (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA07685; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 18:15:25 +0300 To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" References: <199510161425.KAA07364@exalt.x.org> In-Reply-To: <199510161425.KAA07364@exalt.x.org>; from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:25:29 EST Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 18:15:25 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.40 FreeBSD] From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Lines: 29 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1174 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199510161425.KAA07364@exalt.x.org> Kaleb S. KEITHLEY writes: >>Preferring one particular charset >>among others leeds into various troubles. >Such as? I believe that providing a useful defaults is a good thing. >If you don't provide a useful default then it just compounds what >a programmer needs to do to write programs. The choice of a particular >default is usually driven by customer tastes and preferences. Such as breaking other charsets when default 8859-1 rules crossed with different current charset. ASCII rules can't be crossed with _any_ 8bit superset. >>I dislike X idea >>to have ISO8859-1 as default charset and think that they need >>to change it to ASCII. >Okay, I'll play. I claim that it is ASCII, and I challenge you to write >a program that proves otherwise. :-) Sorry, I forget that only left side is defined also 8859-1 name used. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849