Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Spaces in filenames ... will come soon!

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:05:38PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > address@hidden (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> > > Doing everything internally in unicode makes a lot of sense because
> > > it is a true union character set.  So you will be able to represent
> > > all characters and won't need any special cases.
> > 
> > Er, well you can't really `represent all characters' -- it has issues
> > (e.g. in han unification), but probably they don't matter all that much
> > for arch, as the alternative is apparently ASCII.
> 
> Sorry.  I meant all characters that have been electrically encoded
> in a standard character set.  As far as I know unicode does do
> that.

Nope, not at all. See the previous message, 'han unification'.

> It isn't perfect and it certainly is not complete when you
> consider all forms of writing humans have ever used, but it is
> maintained, it works at least as well as anything else out there. 

Doesn't do that either, if you happen to be Chinese, Japanese, or
Korean.

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