Re: [PATCH] fix new format when printing multiple lines

[Reuben Thomas]

On 23 December 2013 22:30, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> I don't see a way around this; nor do I think Unicode should be thought of
> something that is a "specific programming feature": multi-byte encodings
> are the commonest way of dealing with internationalised text, and treating
> them as a bolt-on extra automatically disenfranchises all the communities
> that need them for their languages, which these days, given the demise of
> 8-bit encodings, is pretty much anything other than English.
>

There's a further advantage to showing how to deal with multi-byte
encodings in C, which is that it may scare some programmers into not using
C when they see how horrible it is. (As if the horrors of handling text in
C weren't enough!)

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